A.B., Middlebury College
Ph.D., Princeton University
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Professor Of Chemistry
A.B., Middlebury College
Ph.D., Princeton University
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Crystal growth mechanisms, polycrystalline pattern formation, interactions of light and organized media, optical activity, experimental history of science.
Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo 2015-2016
Nations Science Foundation Distinguished Lectureship 2014
National Science Foundation Creativity Extension 2013-2015
Research and Development Magazine 100 Award 2013
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Visiting Professor 2011
Wiberg Lecturer, Yale University 2009
National Science Foundation Creativity Extension 2007-2009
Honorary Symposium, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 2007
Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, Visiting Professor 2006
H. H. King Lecturer, Kansas State University 2001
President, Small Molecule Interest Group, American Crystal. Assn. 1998
Troisième Cycle Lecturer, Western Swiss Universities 1996
National Science Foundation Young Investigator 1994-1999
Hugh Stott Taylor Prize (Princeton University) 1984
American Institute of Chemists' Prize (Middlebury College) 1983
B. Kahr, L. B. McHenry, M. D. Hollingsworth,
Academic publishing and scientific integrity: Case studies of editorial interference at Taylor & Francis
J. Science Practice and Integrity, 2019, 0000.
B. Kahr, M. D. Hollingsworth
Massive faculty donations and institutional conflicts of interest
J. Science Practice and Integrity, 2019, 0000.
Yang, J.; Zhu, X.; Hu, C.; Qiu, M.; Zhu, Q.; Ward, M.; Kahr, B.
Inverse correlation between lethality and thermodynamic stability of contact insecticide polymorphs
Cryst. Growth Des. 2019, 19, 1839–1844. doi: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01800
A. Haddad, H. Aharoni, R. Kupferman, E. Sharon, A. Shtukenberg, B. Kahr, E. Efrati
Twist renormalization in molecular crystals driven by geometric frustration
Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 116-126. doi: 10.1039/C8SM01290C
B. Kahr, M. D. Ward
Barrier(less) islands (commentary)
Science, 2018, 362, 1111. doi: 10.1126/science.aav7009
S. M. Nichols, M. Tan, A. Martin, E. Timothy, B. Kahr
General framework for the generation, propagation, and polarization of luminescence in
anisotropic media, arXiv:1710.09943 [physics.optics]
C. Li, A. G. Shtukenberg, D. J. Carter, X. Cui, I. Olson, A. L. Rohl, J. D. Gale, P. Raiteri, B. Kahr
Timoshenko bending and Eshelby twisting predicted in molecular nanocrystals
J. Phys. Chem. C. 2018, 122, 25085–25091. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b08261
V. L. Murphy, C. Farfan, B. Kahr
Chiroptical structure-property relations in cyclo[18]carbon and its in silico hydrogenation
products Chirality, 2018, 30, 325-331. doi:10.1002/chir.22817
B. Kahr
Polarization in France
Chirality, 2018, 30, 325-331. doi:10.1002/chir.22818
B. Kahr, A. T. Martin, K.-H. Ernst
On the chiroptical properties of racemic crystals
Chirality, 2018, 30, 378-382. doi:10.1002/chir.22820
A. T. Martin, M. Tan, S. M. Nichols, E. L. Timothy, B. Kahr
Revisiting polarimetry near the isotropic point of an optically active, non-enantiomorphous, molecular crystal
Chirality, 2018, 30, 841-849. doi: 10.1002/chir.22862
M. Tan, A. G. Shtukenberg, S. Zhu, W. Xu, E. Dooryhee, M. D. Ward, B. Kahr, Q. Zhu
ROY revisited, again: The eighth solved structure Faraday Discussions, 2018, 211, 477-491. doi: 10.1039/c8fd00039e
I. Olson, A. Shtukenberg, B. Kahr, M. D. Ward
Dislocations in molecular crystals Rev. Prog. Phys. 2018, 81, 096501. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/aac303
J. Yang, C. Hu, A. G. Shtukenberg, Q. Yin, B. Kahr
L-Malic acid crystallization: Polymorphism, semi-spherulites, twisting and polarity.
CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 1383-1389. doi: 10.1039/c7ce02107k
X. Zhong, A. G. Shtukenberg, T. Hueckel, B. Kahr and M. D. Ward
Screw dislocation generation by inclusions in molecular crystals
Cryst. Growth Des. 2018, 18, 318-323. doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01292
B. Kahr, M. D. Ward
Flexible molecular materials: Stressed out crystals (commentary)
Nature Materials, 2018, 10, 4-6. doi:10.1038/nchem.2913
B. Kahr, A. G. Shtukenberg
Seeing molecular configuration in crystal form
Isr. J. Chem. 2017, 2, 31-38.
A. G. Shtukenberg, Q. Zhu, D. J. Carter, L. Vogt, J. Hoja, E. Schneider, H. Song, B. Pokroy, I. Polishchuk, A. Tkatchenko, A. R. Oganov, A. L. Rohl, M. E. Tuckerman, B. Kahr
Powder diffraction and crystal structure prediction reveal four new coumarin polymorphs
Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 4926-4940.
A. G. Shtukenberg, Q. Zhu, C. Hu, M. U. Schmidt, W. Xu, S. C. Tan, B. Kahr
The third ambient crystal struture of aspirin
Cryst. Growth Des. 2017. 0000.
J. Yang, C. Hu, X. Zhu, D. Ward, B. Kahr
DDT polymorphism and the lethality of crystal forms
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 0000.
J. Yang, D. Ward, B. Kahr
Abuse of Rachel Carson and misuse of DDT science in the service of environmental deregulation
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 0000.
A. T. Martin, S. M. Nichols, M. Tan, S. Li, B. Kahr
Double cone of eigendirections in optically active ethylenediammonium selenate crystals
J. Appl. Cryst. 2017, 0000.
V. L. Murphy, B. Kahr
Hückel theory and optical activity
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5177-5183.
V. L. Murphy, A. Reyes, B. Kahr
Aromaticity and optical activity
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 25-27.
O. Arteaga, J.-S. Parramon, S. Nichols, B. Maoz, A. Canillas, S. Bosch, G. Markovich, B. Kahr
Relation between 2D/3D chirality and the appearance of chiroptical effects in real nanostructures
Optics Express, 2016, 24, 2242-2252.
S. M. Nichols, A. T. Martin, J. Choi, B. Kahr
Gyration and permittivity of ethylenediammonium sulfate crystals
Chirality, 2016, 28, 460-465.
Q. Zhu, A. G. Shtukenberg, D. J. Carter, T.-Q. Yu, J. Yang, M. Chen, P. Raiteri, A. R. Oganov, B. Pokroy, I. Polishchuk, P. J. Bygrave, G. M. Day, A. L. Rohl, M. E. Tuckerman, B. Kahr
Resorcinol crystallization from the melt: A new ambient phase, and new “riddles”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4881-4889.
A. G. Shtukenberg, K. Tripathi, R. Ketchum, J. H. Jeon, A. Sanda, B. Kahr
Incorporation of macromolecules into alpha-lactose monohydrate crystals
Crystal Growth Des. 2016, 16, 4589–4598.
I. Olson, G. Hakobyan, A. G. Shtukenberg, A. Rohl, P. Raeteri, M. D. Ward, B. Kahr
Structure and dynamics of screw dislocations in even n-alkane crystals
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 3112–3117.
X. Cui, S. Nichols, O. Arteaga, J. Freudenthal, F. Paula, A. G. Shtukenberg, B. Kahr
Dichroism in helicoidal crystals
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 12211–12218.
R. Drori, C. Li, C. Hu, P. Raiteri, A. Rohl, M. D. Ward, B. Kahr
A supramolecular ice inhibitor
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 38, 13396–13401
B. Kahr, A. Shtukenberg
Dyeing crystals since 2000
CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 8988–8998.
B. Kahr
Broader impacts of women in crystallography
Cryst. Growth Des. 2015, 15, 4715–4730.
A. G. Shtukenberg, A. Gujral, E. Rosseeva, X. Cui, B. Kahr
Mechanics of twisted hippuric acid crystals untwisting as they grow
CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 8817-8824.
S. M. Nichols, O. Arteaga, A. Martin, B. Kahr
Transmission and reflection of light from a thick anisotropic crystal measured with a four photoelastic modulator polarimeter and modeled by an incoherent sum of partial waves
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 2015, 32, 2049-2057