Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

News

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September 26, 2023

Announcing the 2023-24 Watson Lecture Season

Side-by-side vials show a fluorescent molecule released from a mechanophore activated by ultrasound.

September 19, 2023

Drug Delivery Platform Uses Sound for Targeting

September 11, 2023

WAVE Alumni Return to Caltech for Grad School

August 28, 2023

Jackie Barton Receives Chemistry Award from Welch Foundation

Events

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September 28, 2023 1:00 pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

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September 28, 2023 4:00 pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

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September 29, 2023 3:30 pm

CCE Techer Talk

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

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October 2, 2023 10:30 am

The chemistry program at Caltech provides depth in the traditional areas of chemistry—organic and inorganic chemistry, chemical physics, theoretical chemistry, and chemical biology. Major initiatives are fostering broad collaborations in energy and environment, molecular medicine, and nanomaterials.

Chemical Engineering

Started as applied chemistry by Arthur Amos Noyes, the department led the famous Project 37 of the American Petroleum Institute that provided much of the basic knowledge on thermodynamics and phase equilibria in hydrocarbon systems.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics has been established as an interdisciplinary program, at the interface of biology, chemistry, and physics, that seeks to understand the basic molecular mechanisms of life.