Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., a ºÚÁÏÍø professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is once again on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world.
Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., a ºÚÁÏÍø professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is once again on Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in the world.
ºÚÁÏÍø has recently received a flurry of grants totaling more than $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support research and innovation in a wide range of fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.
There are just a handful of chemists worldwide with h-indices above 200. The h-indices of chemists awarded the Nobel Prize during the last five years range from about 30 to 160. Mietek Jaroniec, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has an h-index of 125, which places him among the top chemists worldwide.
“The pessimistic estimate is that by 2050, antibiotics could be obsolete,'' said Songping Huang, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences. Huang and his Kent State team, including Min-Ho Kim, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, are working on closing that chasm with the development of new antimicrobials.