Winners of the 2020 Chemistry Travel Award

Dalu CHANG, UniGe, adv. Prof. Nicolas Winssinger.
Conference: EMBO Chemical Biology 2020
Contribution: Luciferase-Induced Photouncaging: Bioluminolysis

Faustine d'ORCHYMONT, UZH, adv. Prof. Jason Holland
Conference: Pacifichem 2020
Contribution: Supramolecular radiopharmaceuticals for multi-modality imaging of cancer

Romain J.-C. DUBEY, ETHZ + Empa, adv. Prof. Maksym V.Kovalenko
Conference: 2020 MRS Fall Meeting
Contribution: Silicon Oxycarbide as a Host Matrix of Choice to Stabilize Li-Ion Storage in Nanosized Alloying Elements

Ahmed ELABD, UniFr, adv. Prof. Ali Coskun
Conference: PRiME 2020
Contribution: Covalent Triazine Frameworks Incorporating Charged Polypyrrole Channels for HighPerformance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Michelle FREI, EPFL, adv. Prof. Kai Johnsson
Conference: MAF2020
Contribution: Increasing fluorophore brightness through self-labeling protein tags

Susanne GEISEN, ETHZ, adv. Prof. Shana Sturla
Conference: ACS National Meeting Fall 2020
Contribution: Chemical mechanism of O6-carboxymethyldeoxyguanine formation from azaserine and abundance in cells

Vladimir GORBACHEV, ETHZ, adv. Prof. Peter Chen
Conference: Gordon Research Conference: "Gaseous Ions: Structures, Energetics and Reactions"
Contribution: Cryogenic ion vibrational predissociation (CIVP) spectroscopy of a gas-phase molecular torsion balance to probe London dispersion forces in large molecules

Yannick GUNTERN, EPFL (VS), adv. Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti
Conference: ACS Fall 2020 National Meeting
Contribution: Synthetic route for colloidal nanocrystal/covalent organic framework hybrids

Ilia KOCHETYGOV, EPFL, adv. Prof. Wendy Queen.
Conference: Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology
Contribution: Dimensionality control and rational design of novel nanoporous metal-organic frameworks

Miriam LINSENMEIER, ETHZ, adv. Prof. Paolo Arosio
Conference: Cell Symposia: Biological Assemblies: Phase Transitions and More
Contribution: Droplet-based microfluidic platforms to investigate the kinetics and thermodynamics of phase transitions

Jade NGUYEN, EPFL, adv. Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes.
Conference: Pacifichem 2020
Contribution: Disruption of Redox Homeostasis by Enzymatic Activation of a Triakylphosphine Probe in Mitochondria

Margarita REKHTINA, ETHZ, adv. Prof. Christoph Müller
Conference: 2020 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit
Contribution: Elucidating the factors governing the cyclic performance of MgO-based sorbents of CO2 using time-resolved in situ XRD/PDF techniques

Abdusalom SULEYMANOV, EPFL, adv. Prof. Kay Severin
Conference: Pacifichem 2020
Contribution: Synthesis of Tetraarylethene Luminogens by C-H Vinylation of Arenes with Triazenes

Jin Fay TAN, EPFL, adv. Prof. Nicolai Cramer
Conference Pacifichem 2020
Contribution: Highly Divergent Access to Densely Substituted Arenes, Pyridines and Pyridones via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Transformations of Alkynyl Triazenes

Zacharias THIEL, ETHZ, adv. Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
Conference: Pacifichem 2020
Contribution: Single-Molecule Imaging of Active Enzymes in Live Cells Using Photo-Crosslinking Probes

Matthias TINZL, ETHZ, adv. Prof. Donald Hilvert.
Conference: Girona Seminar 2020
Contribution: Enhancing catalysis of iron heme metalloproteins using non-canonical amino acids

Ming-Ming WANG, EPFL, adv. Prof. Jerome WASER
Conference: ICOS 2020: XXIII International Conference on Organic Synthesis
Contribution: Oxidative Ring-opening Fluorination of Cyclopropylamides

Yanan WANG, UniGe, adv. Prof. Thomas Buergi
Conference: ISSPIC XX
Contribution: Deracemization of Au38 Clusters: Breaking the Equal Status and Dynamic Inversion of Enantiomers 

Rebekah WELLS, EPFL (VS), adv. Prof. Kevin Sivula
Conference: PRiME 2020
Contribution: The roll-to-roll deposition of 2D nanoflake films of semiconducting TMDs for large area solar-to-chemical energy conversion

Prerna YADAV, UZH, adv. Prof. Felix Zelder
Conference: EUROBIC 15
Contribution: Disassembly Approach for the Selective and Sensitive Detection of Pyrophosphate

Xiangli YI, EPFL, adv. Prof. Xile Hu
Conference: ICOS 2020: XXIII International Conference on Organic Synthesis
Contribution: Cu-involved electrocatalysis and photocatalysis for the synthesis of allyamine derivatives from unactivated alkenes

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ADAPTATION DUE TO COVID19 SITUATION

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