Amy Keirstead receives a Petroleum Research Fund grant from the American Chemical Society

Amy Keirstead, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, has received a grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund for a project entitled “Using the Photo-Fries Reaction as a Photochemical Probe to Quantify the Cage Effects of Ionic Liquids.”  The award, valued at $50,000 over two years, will fund this ongoing project within Dr. Keirstead’s undergraduate research program, which investigates the properties of ionic liquids and their utility as media for photovoltaic cells, molecular electronic devices, and applications in green chemistry.

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