Silversmith and Brewer Awarded Grants From American Chemical Society

Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith and Associate Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer each received $50,000 grants from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. Silversmith's is a joint project with Physics Professor Daniel Boye of Davidson College. Their proposal is titled "Fluorescence From Sol-Gel Materials Doped with Rare Earth Impurity Ions, which will spectroscopically investigate the nonradiative decay processes in terbium-doped silica sol-gel glasses. Brewer's project is titled "Rare Earth Calicxarene Complexes in a Sol-Gel Matrix: Synthesis and Luminescence."