Flyer: Prof. Piotr Kaszyński Flyer Title: Closo-Boranes: Unique Structural Elements for Functional Materials Abstract: closo-Boranes are inorganic 3-D sigma aromatic compounds with steric and electronic properties attractive for designing multifunctional materials. Earlier work demonstrated that 10- and 12-vertex p-carboranes are suitable building blocks for liquid crystals. Anionic closo-carbaborates have been used to design highly polar […]

Flyer: Prof. Zdenek Sofer Flyer Title: 2D Magnets and Dielectrics Abstract: The recent progress in methods of high quality and low defect 2D magnetic materials will be discussed. Beside the group of transition metal halides and chalcogens also the rapidly growth family of mixed halogen-chalcogenides will be introduced. The dominantly explored material, chromium sulfo-bromide adopt […]

Flyer:Prof. Alex Zhukhovitskiy Flyer Title: Advancing Inorganic Methods for Polymer Synthesis, Modification, and Degradation Abstract: The polymer backbone is fundamental to the polymer’s identity and properties. My seminar will focus on the development of metathesis mechanisms to access heteroatom-rich polymer backbones, new editing tools to transform existing polymer backbones into different ones, and both strategies […]

Flyer: Prof. Lane Baker Flyer Title: Expanding the Electrochemical Toolbox: A Story in Two Parts Abstract: Advances in electrochemistry, and in particular electroanalytical chemistry, are driven by advances in tools and methods to perform electrochemical measurements. In this talk, I will present two vignettes into very different tools we have developed recently for electrochemical measurements. […]

Flyer: Prof. Michael Inkpen Flyer Title: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Moore: From Interfacial Reactivity to Band Structure Design Abstract: Junctions comprising individual molecules “wired” between nanoscale electrodes approach the limit of miniaturization for electronic circuits used in computation and data storage. While studies of these atomically precise systems expose molecular structure-charge transport property relationships critical for […]

Flyer: Prof. Haimei Zheng Flyer Title: Imaging, Understanding, and Controlling of Dynamic Nanoscale Materials Transformations Abstract: Nanoscale materials often change structure, morphology, or chemical states, during solution processes, such as, growth, self-assembly, catalysis or other applications. My group develops in-situ liquid phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to investigate dynamic materials transformations at the atomic level […]