Prof. Robert Gordon -- Chemists can analyze the composition of a suspected bomb -- without actually touching and possibly detonating it -- using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, or LIBS.

Prof. Yoshitaka Ishii -- Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, or SSNMR, is a valuable tool to image and analyze the chemical makeup of proteins and other biomolecules. But the imaging process is time-consuming and requires large amounts of costly isotope-labeled sample for study.

Prof. Yoshitaka Ishii -- A research team including chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago has detailed the molecular structure of graphite oxide...potential for advanced electronic devices and batteries.

Prof. Tom Driver -- Part of almost all the top 200 brand-name drugs is a nitrogen-containing ring-shaped structure that chemists call an "N-heterocycle."... A University of Illinois at Chicago research group may have found a faster, cleaner, "greener" way to streamline these chemical reactions, and the National Institutes of Health has just awarded the team a five-year, $1.48 million grant to prove its effectiveness.

Prof. Lawrence Miller -- Seeing what's going on inside living cells at the molecular level may reveal biological mechanisms and ultimately lead to more effective medicines... Lawrence Miller, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, hopes to meet that challenge with the help of a four-year, $1.16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.