Abstract: As more attention is focused on biomaterials for medical applications, synthetic polypeptides offer a useful approach towards designing novel biomimetic materials. Polypeptides are inherently biodegradable and biocompatible, and offer wide-ranging properties seen in living systems. The peptide backbone is enzymatically degradable while their side chain functionality can be modified to create an array of […]
Ruxi Dai “Redox switchable catalysts for the preparation of biodegradable copolymers with novel properties” Amy Lai “Predicting redox-switchable reactivity for the ring opening polymerization of lactones and epoxides”
Enabling High Capacity Anodes and Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries
Abstract: The Kalow lab interrogates and exploits the relationship between molecular reactivity and macroscopic properties to discover polymeric materials relevant to human health and sustainability. We approach “reactivity-property” relationships bidirectionally: in reactivity-directed materials discovery, we use synthesis and physical organic chemistry to tune reactions occurring within polymer networks. In polymer networks composed of reversible covalent […]
Torres Group "Functional characterization of the mammalian family of Katanin microtubule-severing enzymes"
"Harnessing nano-scale functionality for next-generation biomedical and bio-inspired technologies"
Abstract: Small molecules offer a unique opportunity to target structural and regulatory elements in therapeutically relevant RNAs, but understanding functional selectivity has been a recurrent challenge in small molecule:RNA recognition. In particular, RNAs tend to be more dynamic and offer less chemical functionality than proteins, and biologically active ligands must compete with the highly abundant […]
“Atomically Precise Nanocrystal Surfaces and Interfaces for Electrocatalysis” Catalysis at surfaces and interfaces where there exists bi- or multi-component cooperation has been identified as crucial for many processes related to energy and environmental applications. In this talk, I will highlight such cooperative catalysis can be synthetically controlled at the surface and interface of atomically precise […]
Super-Resolution imaging of plasmonic Near-fields: Overcoming Emitter Mislocalizations
Lipid membranes are universal features of living systems, constituting inner and outer barriers of a biological construct and maintaining non-equilibrium states necessary for life. Evolution has produced a fascinating array of lipid structures that dictate the function of biological membranes, and organisms devote considerable energy to the synthesis and maintenance of such compositions. Our group has been studying some of the […]
Zhou Group "TBA”
Lisa Pangilinan “Effects of Solubility and Grain Size Refinement on the Hardness of Transition Metal Borides” Mit Muni “Graphene for Capacitive Energy Storage”
