Nick Vukotic

Nick Vukotic poses with Proto Manufacturing’s benchtop powder X-ray diffraction system.Nick Vukotic poses with Proto Manufacturing’s benchtop powder X-ray diffraction system.

Chemistry grad turns in gold-medal doctoral performance

Soon after taking up graduate study, Nick Vukotic was drawn into sessions brainstorming a problem that had eluded his advisor Stephen Loeb—and others around the world—for years. Dr. Vukotic’s design solution led to a cover article in Nature Chemistry that is now ranked as the most-accessed article of May 2012 in any chemistry journal.