Einstein–Debye model for density-functional prediction of vibrational free energies of molecular crystals Accurately predicting the relative free energies of polymorphic molecular crystals is an important aspect of crystal structure prediction (CSP), which has found considerable utility in solid-form phar...

Johnson group is pleased to share that a recent paper: Einstein-Debye Model for Density-Functional Prediction of Vibrational Free Energies of Molecular Crystals, from their group has been published in PCCP:

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We welcome Dr. Jeff Dahn, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, as our Seminar speaker on April 10th, 2026.

The Chemistry Department's 2026 Carl C. Coffin Lecture will be presented by Dr. Ian Young, Senior Director, Head of Process Chemistry at IDEAYA Biosciences.

For more details, please also visit: www.dal.ca/faculty/scie...

Congratulations to our Killam postdoc, Dr. Blaine Fiss, in Dr. Dasog's group on this well-deserved recognition!

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We welcome Dr. Jean-Philip Lumb, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, March 20, 2026.

Congratulations to all the students who won the 2024/25 Non-Graduand prizes, scholarships and awards.

These achievements truly reflect their hard work and dedication!

The Chemistry department's 2025-2026 Chute Lecture will be presented by Dr. Stephen Leffler Buchwald, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT.

For more details, please also visit: www.dal.ca/faculty/scie...

We welcome Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, February 27, 2026. This seminar will be held virtually.

Measuring the molecular origins of stiffness in organic semiconductors - Nature Communications Nanomechanical measurements of molecular thin films are non-trivial due to ease of perturbation of the molecular surface. The authors present a direct, experimental demonstration of the tunability in ...

Johnson group is pleased to share that a recent paper from their group has been published in Nature Communications, resulting from a collaborative project led by Deepak Venkateshvaran (University of Cambridge).

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We welcome Dr. Shannon Accettone, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Trent University, as our Seminar speaker next Friday, February 20, 2026.

We welcome Dr. Catia Arbizzani, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna, Italy, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, February 13, 2026.

Applications of engineered peptide nanomaterials in enhanced cancer imaging In this review, applications of engineered peptide nanomaterials in enhanced cancer imaging are summarized, focusing on the most pertinent of reports. The design principles of said peptide nanostru...

The Charron Lab is delighted to share the publication of their review: “Applications of engineered peptide nanomaterials in enhanced cancer imaging” by Chloe Shenouda, Tiana Sharpe, Jacob Campbell, and Carlie Charron. Click below for review and free e-print!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZQTXY...

We welcome Dr. Selopal, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, as our Seminar speaker next Wednesday, February 4, 2026.

We welcome Dr. Dhésmon Lima, Department of Chemistry, Mount Saint Vincent University, as our Seminar speaker next Friday, January 23, 2026.

We are pleased to share that Prof. Erin Johnson's research group in the Department of Chemistry has published a new paper:

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Congratulations to the team on this excellent work!

We welcome Dr. Huck Grover, Department of Chemistry, Memorial University, as our Seminar speaker next Friday, January 16, 2026.

We welcome Dr. Christopher Cairo, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, January 9, 2026.

Holiday greetings to our Chemistry students, faculty, and staff. Wishing you a joyful and restful holiday season🎄🎁🎅🏻

We welcome Dr. Stanislav Sokolenko, Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, November 28th.

Meet Dalhousie’s most recent Royal Society of Canada inductees Three Dalhousie researchers—Jennifer Bain, Mark Stradiotto, and Finlay Maguire—join the Royal Society of Canada, honoured for groundbreaking work in musicology, sustainable chemistry, and infectious d...

Congratulations to Professor Mark Stradiotto in the Department of Chemistry, was among three Dalhousie faculty members inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the nation's highest academic honour! More details, please find:
www.dal.ca/news/2025/11...
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We welcome Dr. Shawn Collins, Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, as our Seminar speaker next Friday, November 21st.

We welcome Dr. Mark Taylor, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, November 7th.

We welcome Dr. Michael Land, Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Mount Saint Vincent University as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 31st.

We welcome Dr. Yunyun Wu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomaterials & Applied Oral Sciences, with a cross-appointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 24th.

We welcome Dr. Mahla Poudineh, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 17th.

Congratulations to all the winners of the yearly Orientation Awards in this year's Departmental Orientation Get-Together event 💐 👏

Silver(I)-mediated oxazoline formation: a mild route to 2,4-oxazoles in peptides We present a silver-promoted cyclization of peptide thioamides that enables site-specific insertion of oxazole and methyloxazole motifs through oxazoline intermediates. Demonstrated in di- and tetrape...

Exciting news from the Charron Lab — their first manuscript has just been published in Chemical Science!

We’re thrilled to share this milestone and grateful to everyone who contributed to this work.

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We welcome Meghan Landry, Digital Research Consultant, specializing in Humanities & Social Sciences, with ACENET as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 10th.

We welcome Dr. Mita Dasog from Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 3rd.

Quantitative Crystal Structure Comparison Methods for the quantitative comparison of two or more crystal structures are essential for the study of molecular crystals. There are many research areas in which it is necessary to distinguish cryst...

The book chapter from Johnson's group on Quantitative Crystal Structure Comparison, appearing in Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry, was published online here:

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