Dateline Rice for July 21, 2017

Rice University News & Media

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Global business experience to help Huntsman as US ambassador to RussiaCharles McConnell, executive director of Rice’s Energy and Environment Initiative, is quoted.Sputnik Newshttp://bit.ly/2uGJXyJ
Opposition strike paralyzes parts of Venezuela as fears of violence mountFrancisco Monaldi, a fellow in Latin American energy policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.The Washington Post (This also appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, McDowell News, AFLNet, Standard Examiner and LMT Online.)http://wapo.st/2uhRTneVenezuela is desperate for higher oil pricesBusiness Insider  (This also appears in Bullfax and Latest Nigerian News.)http://read.bi/2gQBEKZ
Fluorine grants white graphene new powersA little fluorine turns an insulating ceramic known as white graphene into a wide-bandgap semiconductor with magnetic properties. Rice scientists said that could make the unique material suitable for electronics in extreme environments. Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and founding chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering; postdoctoral researcher Chandra Sekhar Tiwary; and graduate student Sruthi Radhakrishnan are mentioned.National Science Foundationhttp://bit.ly/2txafni
Rice scientists simplify the incorporation of nitrogen into moleculesA Rice laboratory that specializes in synthesizing reagents and intermediate molecules for the design and manufacture of drugs and other fine chemicals has delivered on a promise to generalize the synthesis of electrophilic (electron-poor) aminating agents. László Kürti, associate professor of chemistry; postdoctoral researchers Padmanabha Kattamuri and Jun Yin; and McMurtry College senior Surached Siriwongsup are mentioned.National Science Foundationhttp://bit.ly/2gQmxRr
Houston team one step closer to growing capillariesIn their work toward 3-D printing transplantable tissues and organs, bioengineers and scientists from Rice and Baylor College of Medicine have demonstrated a key step on the path to generate implantable tissues with functioning capillaries.National Science Foundationhttp://bit.ly/2uJktQu
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