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Clemson chemist scores twice!
Luis Echegoyen, department chair and professor
of chemistry at Clemson, scored twice in the first two months of
2006. Echegoyen, his research group and collaborators had the honor
of publishing two articles, one in the first issue of the year in
Angewandte Chemie and another in the second issue of the year of
Chemistry, A European Journal. In both cases, their work was judged
so important that they were featured on the cover (see below, above).
These two journals are highly regarded, and with the Journal of
the American Chemical Society, rank only below Science and Nature.
Both articles concerned advances in Echegoyen’s research in
fullerenes, carbon molecules in the form of a hollow sphere, or
tube. He and his group are working with carbon nano-onions (CNOs),
which are still largely unexplored carbon allotropes. Indications
are that CNOs could be potentially useful in photovoltaic and fuel
cell applications. NASA researchers are interested in their lubricating
properties.
Echegoyen’s team at Clemson includes Dr. Arno S. Rettenbacher,
Bevan Elliott, Dr. Joan Hudson, Armen Amirkhanian and Dr. C. M.
Cardona. Collaborators at Universidad Complutense of Madrid, include
Dr. Nazario Martin, Margarita Altabld, Dr. Salvatore Fillippone,
and Dr. Angel Martin-Domenech.
Echegoyen headed to NSF
Luis Echegoyen, department chair and professor of chemistry at
Clemson has been named chemistry division director with the National
Science Foundation. This prestigious appointment is being made through
an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment, which will
take Echegoyen to the NSF for a period of two years. As director,
he will provide leadership and direction to the chemistry division,
which supports research and education in organic and macromolecular
chemistry; physical chemistry; inorganic, bioinorganic and organometallic
chemistry; analytical and surface chemistry and related fields.
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