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Projects in the Schelter Group involve synthesis of inorganic and organometallic complexes for applications in sustainability. Current research interests include critical metals separations and recycling, synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, quantum materials chemistry, and photochemistry.​

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New Paper Accepted!

We have a new paper published in Chem! "A sustainable cobalt separation with validation by techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment." Zhang, B.; Weberg, A. B.; Ahn, A. J.; Guron, M.; Jones, L. O.; Gau, M. R.; Schatz, G. C.; Schelter, E. J. Chem 2024, in print. DOI:...

VIEST Fellowship and Award for Excellence in Chemistry Graduate Research

Congratulations to Brett on receiving the 2024 Award for Excellence in Chemistry Graduate Research, and to Bobby on receiving the VIEST Graduate Fellowship!

2024 Cottrell SEED Awards

Eric recently received the 2024 Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Award, presented by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, under the category of New Research Directions for the project "New Directions for Sustainable Separations of Battery Materials"! The...

New Paper Accepted

We have a new paper published in Inorganic Chemistry!  "Synthesis and Luminescence Studies of a Tethered, Trigonal, Silver(I) Tris(alkyne) Complex." Furigay, M. H.; Vincenzini, B. D.; Gu, J.; Gau, M. R.; Schelter, E. J. Inorg. Chem. 2024, in print. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02020. Link ->

Welcome Summer Researchers of 2024!

We are excited to present this year’s visiting researchers! We’d like to extend our heartfelt welcome to all of them.

New Paper Accepted

We have a new paper published in Chemical Communications! "Assembly of a Trapped Valent CeIII/IV-TCNQ Complex Through Metal-Ligand Redox Cooperativity." Gupta, H.; Vincenzini, B. D.; Bacon, A. M.; Schelter, E. J. Chem. Commun. 2024, in print. Link ->

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