Honorable Mention, 2016

Cachaça is a popular alcoholic beverage in Brazil. These drinks have mixtures of chemical compounds known as tannins that depend on what woods they were soaked with during the production process. Taking advantage of the structure of these molecules, Freshman Research Initiative students in the Supramolecular Sensors Stream created an array of sensing ensembles in an effort to differentiate between cachaça “varietals.”

Credit:
Elise LeBovidge
Chemistry Undergraduate Student