FROM THE NEST | FALL 2024 | 9 Entrepreneur Here’s a Simple Tip to Make More Money From Your Side Hustle Research from Daniel Zane, associate professor of marketing, found that how much a seller enjoys their work is a key consumer cue in peer-to-peer marketplaces. “Don’t sell yourself short,” said Zane. Newsweek Near-limitless Energy Coming Closer to Reality— With the Help of Mayonnaise Research led by Arindam Banerjee, Paul B. Reinhold Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, is utilizing the physical properties of mayonnaise with the hope of producing nuclear fusion technologies. “We’re still working on the same problem, which is the structural integrity of fusion capsules used in inertial confinement fusion, and Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise is still helping us in the search for solutions,” he said. Helio Cold Temperatures May Worsen Asthma Symptoms in Children Biomarkers can be used to explain the connection between cold temperatures, oxidative stress and asthma flare-ups, according to new research from Linchen He, assistant professor of community and population health. “This is the first study to identify this potential connection,” said He. Lehigh Faculty in the Media David Vicic, the Howard S. Bunn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh, has been selected to receive the 2025 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry. The international award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of fluorine chemistry, is given once annually. Vicic has co-authored 105 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and his research helped provide the conceptual framework for understanding how earth-abundant metals could be used to introduce small fluorinated functional groups into larger organic molecules. A building block approach that involved pairing the fluorinated groups with earth-abundant metals to make a more reactive chemical species was optimized so the fluorocarbon transfer was more reliable. Vicic showed it was possible to prepare and bottle a variety of activated and well-defined fluoro-organometallic complexes with metals such as copper, nickel and cobalt, and study how they give up their fluorinated group to organic substrates. Vicic’s work demonstrates how the metal identity, the metal oxidation state and the ligand framework all play a role in tuning the chemistry to specific needs. The reactivity patterns identified by Vicic guided the development of new synthetic methodologies of interest to industry. One of Vicic’s fluorinated reagents has recently drawn the interest of Pfizer, who paired up with Snapdragon to synthesize it on a greater than 100 gram scale using a continuous stirred tank reactor. The ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry address will be presented at the 2025 Winter Fluorine Conference in Clearwater, Florida. RESEARCH David Vicic Wins American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry The professor will receive the award at the 2025 Winter Fluorine Conference in Clearwater, Florida. CHRISTINE T. KRESCHOLLEK
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