Courtney Stewart, a Ph.D. candidate in the Chemistry Department working with Dr. Hong Wang, was recently selected as a B Symposium Best Poster Award winner at the 235th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting. The event took place in Dallas, May 26-30, 2019. ECS' biannual meetings are a forum for sharing the latest scientific and technical developments in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, and the poster awards acknowledge the quality and thoroughness of the candidate's work, originality and independence of the candidate's contributions, significance and timeliness of research results, and depth of understanding of the research topic and its relationship to the fields of interest to The Electrochemical Society.
Courtney's poster details how "a dithiophenyl-benzoporphyrin was successfully synthesized via heck-reaction based sequence reaction and confirmed with X-Ray Crystallography. The fluorescence lifetime of this compound was found to be 13.5 ns, an unusually long lifetime for a free-base porphyrin."
For more information about the awards and a list of past winners, please check out the ECS Meeting's awards page.