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Three University of Georgia faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Mary Ann Moran, Gregory H. Robinson and J. Marshall Shepherd recognized for extraordinary scientific achievement
J. Marshall Shepherd, Mary Ann Moran and Gregory H. Robinson
Newswise Three distinguished faculty members at the University of Georgia have received one of the highest honors a scientist can earn, election to the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership and with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Three UGA faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
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J. Marshall Shepherd, Mary Ann Moran and Gregory H. Robinson recognized for extraordinary scientific achievement
Three distinguished faculty members at the University of Georgia have received one of the highest honors a scientist can earn, election to the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership and with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
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Using a technique they developed in 2008, the
University of Georgia
team succeeded in isolating silicon oxide fragments for the first time, at room temperature, by trapping them between stabilizing organic bases. Silicon monoxide is the most abundant silicon oxide in the universe but, terrestrially it is only persistent at high temperatures, about 1,200 degrees Celsius. Naturally abundant silica ((SiO2)n) exists on Earth as sand; a network solid wherein each silicon atom bonds to four oxygen atoms in a process that repeats infinitely.
A new paper reports two new compounds containing Si2O3 and Si2O4 cores that the team was able to isolate using the carbene stabilization technique. This synthetic strategy allowed the team to tame the highly reactive silicon oxide moieties at room temperature, a discovery which breaks open an area of chemistry where difficulty with synthetics has limited the research activity. Silicon-oxide materials are found in every electronic device and c