Seminars

Flyer: Prof. Milad Abolhasani Flyer Title: Human-AI-Machine Collaboration to Accelerate Materials and Molecular Discovery with Autonomous Labs Abstract: The current human-dependent nature of experimental research in chemical and materials sciences fails to identify technological solutions for renewable energy, sustainability, and healthcare challenges in a short timeframe. This limitation necessitates the development and implementation of new…

Flyer: Dr. David Kwabi Flyer Title: Designing Organic Redox-Flow Batteries for Energy Storage and CO2 Capture Abstract: Avoiding the most severe consequences of climate change can be achieved by increasing the pace at which carbon-free/renewable power is adopted to replace fossil fuels, capturing and permanently sequestering CO2 away from the atmosphere, or both. Large-scale implementation…

Flyer: Prof. Jonathan Rittle Flyer Title: Discovery of Manganese-Dependent Monooxygenases Abstract: The aerobic oxidation of carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds in biology is currently known to be accomplished by a limited set of cofactors that largely include heme, nonheme iron, and copper. While manganese cofactors perform difficult oxidation reactions, including water oxidation within Photosystem II, they are…

Flyer: Prof. Ellen M. Matson Flyer Title: Structure-function Relationships that Dictate Proton Coupled Electron Transfer at the Surfaces of Polyoxometalate Clusters Abstract:While the dynamics of proton- and electron-transfer at metal oxides have been studied extensively in the field of electrochemical energy storage, researchers have only very recently begun to understand how these process play out…

Flyer: Prof. Timothy Su Flyer Title: Sila-Diamondoids: Atomically Precise Clusters of Crystalline Silicon Abstract: This talk will describe the synthesis, derivatization, and quantum transport properties of silicon diamondoids—atomically precise clusters of crystalline silicon. First, we describe strategies for the functionalization of the fundamental silicon diamondoid cluster, sila-adamantane. Mechanistic insights support that an aluminate-stabilized silylium at…