Chemistry Seminar Series

Friday, January 12, 2024
Title: Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Radiochemistry in Support of National Security Missions
Dr. Judah Friese, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Host: Jensen

Friday, January 19, 2024
Title: Organic Seemiconductor Materials for Optoelectronic Applications. Chemistry, Processing and Device Engineering
Prof. Antonio Facchetti, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Sellinger

Friday, January 26, 2024
Title: Seeing is Believing – How X-ray Probes Can Help Us Understand Solid State Batteries
Prof. Kelsey Hatzell, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Host: Maughan

Friday, February 2, 2024
Title: Development of Novel Sorbents for Commercial Direct Air Capture Applications
Dr. Thomas McDonald, Cofounder of Mosaic Materials
Host: McGuirk

Friday, February 9, 2024
Title: Thermodynamic Properties to Optimize Hydrogen Storage in Sorbents and Liquid Carriers
Dr. Mark Bowden, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Host: Gennett

Friday, February 16, 2024
Title: Synthesis and Sequencing of Sequenced Defined Biotic and Abiotic Polymers
Prof. Eric Anslyn, Department of Chemistry University of Texas – Austin
Host: McGuirk

Friday, February 23, 2024
Title: Thiocyanate as a Compatible Counteranion for Divalent Lanthanides (Sm, Eu, Yb)
Hannah Weininger, CHGN 560, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Voelker

Friday, March 1, 2024
No Seminar, Graduate recruitment weekend

Friday, March 8, 2024
Title: Discovering Molecular Probes and Inhibitors via Chemically Enhanced Phage Display
Prof. Jianmin Gao, Department of Chemistry, Boston College
Host: Domaille

Friday, March 15, 2024
No Seminar

Friday, March 22, 2024
No seminar – Spring Break

Friday, March 29, 2024
Title: 
Ms. Nicole Hege, Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Shafer

Friday, April 5, 2024
Title: 

Host: 

Friday, April 12, 2024 – E-Days
No Seminar – Happy E-Days!

Friday, April 19, 2024
Title: 
Dr. Nicholas Strange, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Host: Gennett

Friday, April 26, 2024
Title: 
Prof. Michael Findlater, Department of Chemistry, University of California – Merced
Host: Menke

Friday, August 23, 2024
Title: 
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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, August 30, 2024
Title:

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 6, 2024
Title: 
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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 13, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 20, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 27, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 4, 2024
Title: 
Prof. Marina S. Leite, Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of California – Davis
Host: Richards
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 11, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 18, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 25, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 1, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 8, 2024
Title: 

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Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 15, 2024

Friday, November 22, 2024
No seminar

Friday, November 29, 2024
Thanksgiving – No seminar

Friday, December 6, 2024
No seminar

Friday, August 25, 2023
Title: Chemistry faculty research presentation
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 1, 2023
Title:

Host: 
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 8, 2023
Title: Chemistry faculty research presentation
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 15, 2023
Title: Microextraction Strategies for Effective Preconcentration of PFAS in Complex Media
Prof. Emanuela Gionfriddo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Toledo
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 22, 2023
Title: Using Dynamic Behavior and Self-Assembly as Tools to Achieve Colossal Thermal Expansion in Organic Solid-State Materials
Prof. Kristin Hutchins, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University
Host: McGuirk
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 29, 2023
Title: Transforming Waste into Valuable Resources for a Resilient Future
Prof. Jihye Kim Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 6, 2023
Title: Solid State NMR – A Primer to Probe Design
John Stringer, Phoenix NMR
Host: Gennett
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 13, 2023
Title: Tuning Properties of 2D Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks from Molecular Approaches
Prof. Jihye Park Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado – Boulder
Host: McGuirk
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 20, 2023
Title: The Mitochondria and its Dynamic Role in the Carbon Concentrating Mechanism in Algae
Dr. Arthur Grossman, Department of Plant Biology, The Carnegie Institution, Stanford
Host: Posewitz
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 27, 2023
Title: Has the Reaction Problem Been Solved?
Prof. Brett Savoie, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Host: Eckstein
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 3, 2023
Title: Expanding the Chemistry of Layered Solids and 2D Materials
Prof. Christina Birkel, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University
Host: Maughan
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 10, 2023
Title: Synthesis and Applications of Organophosphonic Acid Compounds as Extractants for Rare Earth Element Separation and Beyond
Anastasia Kuvayskaya, Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Sellinger
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 17, 2023
No seminar

Friday, November 24, 2023
Thanksgiving – No seminar

Friday, December 1, 2023
No seminar

Friday, January 13, 2023
Title: 

Host: Miorelli

Friday, January 20, 2023
Title: Allies for Gender Equity
Advocates for Gender Equity
Host: Sabo and DI&A committee

Friday, January 27, 2023
Title: 
Teaching Professor Faculty Candidate teaching demo
Host: Miorelli

Friday, February 3, 2023
Title: Guns, Germs, and MOFs
Prof. Jeremiah J Gassensmith, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas – Dallas
Host: McGuirk

Friday, February 10, 2023
Title: Enhancing the Performance of Oxygen Evolution by Controlling the Structure of the Electrocatalyst
Meital Shviro, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, February 17, 2023
Title: Uncovering Structure/Function Relationships for Electrocatalytic Nanomaterials Implemented in Hydrocarbon Transformation Reactions Using Synchrotron Radiation Characterization Techniques
Dr. Nicholas Bedford, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales
Host: Richards

Friday, February 24, 2023
Title: Materials By Design: Developing structure-property relationships in inorganic solids
Prof. Eve Mozur, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Maughen

Friday, March 3, 2023
Title: Activity and Durability Aspects of Electrocatalysts for Acidic Water Electrolyzers
Prof. Raghunandan Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Southern Denmark
Host: Pylypenko (Via Zoom)

Friday, March 10, 2023
No Seminar, Graduate recruitment weekend

Friday, March 17, 2023
Title: Boron-Containing Materials as Selective Catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation or Oxidative Cracking of Alkanes
Prof. Ive Hermans, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Host:  Richards

Friday, March 24, 2023
No seminar – Spring Break

Friday, March 31, 2023
Title: Facilitated Degradation of a Virus-like Protein Hidden in the Human Genome: a New Potential Pathway in ALS
Prof. Alexandra Whiteley, Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado – Boulder
Host: Morrison

Friday, April 7, 2023
Title: Bacterial/Host Interface: Cutting up the Host
Prof. Elan Z. Eisenmesser, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Campus
Host: Morrison

Friday, April 14, 2023 – E-Days
Title:

Host: 

Friday, April 21, 2023
Title: From Molecular Dating to Functional Materials
Christer Aakeröy, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University
Host: Richards

Friday, April 28, 2023
Title: Silicon-based Hybrid Polymers from Photochemical Responses to Catalytic Recycling
Joseph Coy Furgal, Department of Chemistry, and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University
Host: Sellinger

Friday, June 9, 2023
Title: 
Stefan Kaskel, Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Department at Technical University Dresden, Germany
Host: McGuirk

Friday, August 26, 2022
Title: Chemistry faculty research presentation
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 2, 2022
Title: Surprising properties of 2D Metal-Organic Frameworks
Prof. Mircea Dincă, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Student-Invited Speaker Committee
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 9, 2022
Title: Chemistry faculty research presentation
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 16, 2022
Title: Causal Machine Learning Reveals Payload-Specific Polymer Design Criteria for pDNA and RNP Delivery
Prof. Ramya Kumar, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines.
Host: Trewyn
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 23, 2022
Title: Multimetallic Nanomaterials by Design
Prof. Sara Skrabalak, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Host: Richards
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, September 30, 2022
No seminar 

Friday, October 7, 2022
Title: Structurally Ordered Polymeric Architectures Enabled by Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Prof. Wei Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado
Host: McGuirk
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 14, 2022
No seminar

Friday, October 21, 2022
Title: From Nano to Macro and Back Again: Disruptive Science for Materials-Based Hydrogen Storage
Dr. Mark Allendorf, Sandia National Laboratory
Host: Gennett
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, October 28, 2022
Title: Mechanism-guided discovery of photocontrolled materials and reactions
Prof. Julia Kalow, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Host: Domaille
Location: Virtual

Friday, November 4, 2022
Title: Lessons Learned from Lanmodulin in the Selective Recognition and Separation of f-Block Elements
Prof. Joseph Cotruvo, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
Host: Jensen
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 11, 2022
Title: Towards Sustainable Carbon Energetics in Photosynthetic Algae
Dr. Lieve Laurens, Researcher V, Biological Sciences, NREL
Host: Williams
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 18, 2022
Title: Designing Next-Generation Organic Semiconductors through Phonon Engineering
Dr. Michael Ruggiero, Department of Chemistry, The University of Vermont
Host: Gennett
Location: 209 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 25, 2022
Thanksgiving – No seminar

Friday, December 2, 2022
No seminar

Friday, January 14, 2022
Title: Water-mediated Intercalation Mechanisms in Transition Metal Oxides
Prof. Veronica Augustyn, Department of Material Science and Engineering, NC State University
Host: Maughan

Friday, January 21, 2022
Title:

Host: 

Friday, January 28, 2022
Title: Using Neutron and X-ray Studies to Resolve Structure-Property Relationships in Disordered Lithium Solid Electrolyte Materials
Dr. Hayden Evans, NIST NCNR
Host: Maughan

Friday, February 4, 2022
Title: Multiscale Simulations of Reactive Interfaces in Materials for Hydrogen Energy Technologies
Dr. Brandon C. Wood, Hydrogen & Computational Energy Materials, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host: Gennett

Friday, February 11, 2022
Title: Theory of elementary gas-surface processes: influence of van der Waals interactions in the dynamics of reactive and non-reactive scattering of N2 on W(100)
Prof. Cedric Crespos, Department of Chemistry, University of Bordeaux
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, February 18, 2022
Title: Quantification of Anthropogenic and Natural Nanoparticles and Microparticles with Single Particle ICP-TOFMS
Prof. Alexander Gundlach-Graham, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Host: Ranville

Friday, February 25, 2022
No Seminar, Graduate recruitment weekend

Friday, March 4, 2022
Title:
Dr. Ryan Thaner, Boston Consulting Group
Host: Chemistry Graduate Association

Friday, March 11, 2022
Title: Chaperoning Proteins with RNA (and Fun with Foldit)
Prof. Scott Horowitz, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver
Host: McGuirk

Friday, March 18, 2022
Title: Gold Nanorods: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology
Prof. Catherine Murphy, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign
Host: Richards

Friday, March 25, 2022
No seminar – Spring Break

Friday, April 1, 2022
Title:
Dr. Meera Desai, Karana Biotech
Host: Chemistry Graduate Association

Friday, April 8, 2022
Title:
Prof. Robert Gilliard, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia
Host: McGuirk

Friday, April 15, 2022
Title: Protecting fuel cell catalysts from degradation – advanced synthesis and characterization approaches
Prof. Jasna Jankovic, Material Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, April 22, 2022
Title:
Prof. Philip Milner, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University
Host: McGuirk

Friday, April 29, 2022
Title:
Prof. Michael Wong, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
Host: Richards

Friday, August 27, 2021
Title: Chemistry faculty research presentation
Host: Trewyn
Location: Coolbaugh 219

Friday, September 3, 2021
Title: Integration of 2D Material Characterization and Reliability into Device Manufacturing
Dr. Elisabeth Mansfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
Host: Richards
Location: Coolbaugh 219

Friday, September 10, 2021
Title: Tuning the Activity of Nickelates for Oxygen Electrocatalysis
Prof. Kelsey Stoerzinger, Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University
Host: Pylypenko
Location: Zoom

Friday, September 17, 2021
Title: Chemistry Beyond Plutonium: How Relativity Alters Electronic Structure in Heavy Elements
Prof. Thomas Albrecht-Schoenzart, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University
Host: Jensen
Location: Coolbaugh 219

Friday, September 24, 2021
Title: Chemistry faculty research presentation
Host: Trewyn
Location: Coolbaugh 219

Friday, October 1, 2021
Title: Photophysics and Electronic Structure of Metal-Organic Frameworks
Prof. Natalia Shustova, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
Host: McGuirk
Location: Coolbaugh 219

Friday, October 8, 2021
Title: Guided Discovery of Mn-Based Materials for Magnetocaloric Applications
Prof. Joya Cooley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University – Fullerton
Host: Maughan
Location: Zoom

Friday, October 15, 2021
Title: Smart and Programmable Sponges for Protection from Bench to Market
Prof. Omar Fahra, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Host: Chemistry Graduate Students
Location: Coolbaugh 219

Friday, October 22, 2021
Title: The Magnetic Universe of Transition Metal Complexes
Prof. Joe Zadrozny, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Host: McGuirk
Location: Coolbaugh Hall 219

Friday, October 29, 2021
Title: ​​Instructors’ influence on what gets learned: metacognition, active learning, and climate change
Prof. Melissa Weinrich, Department of Chemistry, University of Northern Colorado
Host: Trewyn
Location: 219 Coolbaugh

Friday, November 5, 2021
Title:

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Location:

Friday, November 12, 2021
Title:

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Location:

Friday, November 19, 2021
Title: Mechanochemical and Mechanocatalytic Reactions in Ball Mills
Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Host: Richards
Location: Zoom

Friday, November 26, 2021
Thanksgiving – No seminar

Friday, December 3, 2021
Title: Elucidating mechanistic principles of complex metalloenzymes through protein-based models
Prof. Hannah Shafaat, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
Host: Morrison
Location: Coolbaugh Hall 219

Friday, January 15, 2021
Title: Controlling Charge, Spin and Light in Lead-Halide Inspired Hybrid Semiconductors and Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Dr. Matthew C. Beard, NREL
Host: Gennett

Friday, January 22, 2021
Title: Pnictogen Bonding in Solution: From Triple Pnictogen Bonds to Reversed Bilayer Formation
Prof. Anthony Cozzolino, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University
Host: McGuirk

Friday, January 29, 2021
Title: Synthesis and Reactivity of a Terminal Co Oxo Complex
Prof. John Anderson, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
Host: McGuirk

Friday, February 5, 2021
Title: Solution-based Synthesis and Applications of Multi-functional Nanoscale Systems
Dr. Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University
Host: Richards

Friday, February 12, 2021
Title: Universal Alkene Functionalization as an Aspirational Driver
Prof. Keary Engle, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
Host: Morrison

Friday, February 19, 2021
No Seminar – Perspective graduate student visit

Friday, February 26, 2021
Title: The Curious Cases of Water as a Shuttle, Scissors and a Barricade
Prof. Vivek Bharadwaj, Computational Molecular Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Vyas

Friday, March 5, 2021
Title: Mines DI&A seminar

Host: Megan Rose

Friday, March 12, 2021
Title: The Biosynthesis of Lipoic Acid: A Saga of Death, Destruction, and Rebirth
Prof. Squire Booker, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Morrison

Friday, March 19, 2021
Title: The Great Metallocofactors of Biology
Prof. Cathy Drennan, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biology, MIT
Host: Morrison

Friday, March 26, 2021
Title: Synthesis of Thermodynamically Challenging Inorganic Solids Using High-Energy Thin Film Precursors
Dr. Sage Bauers, Researcher III, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Gennett

Friday, April 2, 2021
No seminar- Spring Break

Friday, April 9, 2021
Title: Custom Electrostatic Environments for Crystal Growth and Sensing
Prof. Eli Fahrenkrug, Department of Chemistry, Colorado College
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, April 16, 2021
Title: Force-Activated Covalent Bond Transformations via Polymer Mechanochemistry
Prof. Maxwell Robb, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech
Host: Morrison

Friday, April 23, 2021
Title: Controlling Labile Metal Ions in Biological Systems
Prof. Justin Wilson, Department of Chemistry, Cornell
Host: McGuirk

Friday, April 30, 2021
Title: Stabilizing unusual oxidation states and promoting small molecule activation in f-elements chemistry
Prof. Marinella Mazzanti, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Host: Shafer/Galley

Friday, May 7, 2021
No Seminar, first day of final exams.

Friday, August 28, 2020
No Seminar

Friday, September 4, 2020
Title: The fascinating chemistry of transmembrane metal transporters
Prof. Gabriele Meloni, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas
Host: Morrison

Friday, September 11, 2020
Title: Faculty Research Presentations

Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 18, 2020
Title: Chirality-Directed Self-Assembly: Building Dual Catalytic Dendrimers and Their Use toward Orthogonal Tandem Catalysis
Prof. Shin Moteki, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Host: Wu

Friday, September 25, 2020
Title: Post-transition state dynamics for organic reactions
Prof. Dean Tantillo, Department of Chemistry, University of California – Davis
Host: Vyas

Friday, October 2, 2020
No Seminar

Friday, October 9, 2020
Title: Faculty Research Presentations

Host: Trewyn

Friday, October 16, 2020
Title: Boron Cluster Building Blocks for Hybrid Materials
Prof. Alex Spokoyny, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California – Los Angeles
Host: McGuirk

Friday, October 23, 2020
Title: Novel Nanomaterials and Synthetic Insights Enabled by Surface Chemistry
Prof. Matthew Jones, Department of Chemistry, Rice University
Host: McGuirk

Friday, October 30, 2020
Title: Methods to Generate High-Valent Transuranic Elements
Prof. Christopher Dares, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University
Host: Shafer

Friday, November 6, 2020
Title: Porous Crystalline Frameworks as Intrinsic Photocatalytic Materials
Prof. Jier Huang, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University
Host: Gennett

Friday, November 13, 2020
Title: Opto-electronic and Excited-State Dynamical Properties of Chiral, Polymer-Wrapped Semiconducting and Metallic Carbon Nanotube Superstructures
Prof. Michael Therien, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
Host: Trewyn

Friday, November 20, 2020
Title: Electron (De)localization in f-Element Systems: From Fundamental Questions to QIS Design Principles
Prof. Pete La Pierre, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Shafer

Friday, November 27, 2020
No seminar – Thanksgiving

Friday, December 4, 2020
Final exams begin – no seminar

Friday, January 10, 2020
Title: Insight into Fundamental Chemistry Principles through Single-Molecule Magnets
Colin Gould, Department of Chemistry, University of California – Berkeley
Host: McGuirk

Friday, January 17, 2020
Title: Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Transformations
Prof. Ian Tonks, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Host: McGuirk

Friday, January 24, 2020
Title: Enabling Synthesis and Analysis of New Materials Using Picoliter and Nanoliter Droplets
Prof. Shelley Anna, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Host: Williams

Friday, January 31, 2020
Title: Molecular Electrocatalysts and Scalable Systems for Renewable Fuels
Prof. Charles Machan, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia
Host: McGuirk

Friday, February 7, 2020
Title: The Subtleties of Redox Chemistry with Multivalent Cations for Next-Generation Batteries
Prof. Kimberly See, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Host: Morrison

Friday, February 14, 2020
No Seminar

Friday, February 21, 2020
Title: Designing Functional Sites in Porous Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Prof. V. Sara Thio, Department of Chemistry, John Hopkins
Host: Trewyn

Friday, February 28, 2020
Graduate Recruitment Weekend

Friday, March 6, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, March 13, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, March 20, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, March 27, 2020
No seminar- Spring Break

Friday, April 3, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, April 10, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, April 17, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, April 24, 2020
Title: COVID-19 cancellation

Host:

Friday, May 1, 2020
No Seminar, first day of final exams.

Friday, August 23, 2019
Title: Spying on Cellular Communication with Chemical Tools and Noninvasive Imaging
Prof. Jennifer Prescher, Department of Chemistry, University of California – Irvine
Host: Domaille

Friday, August 30, 2019
Title: Dynamic and Responsive Polymers Based on the Thioester Functional Group
Dr. Brady Worrell, CU- Boulder
Host: Domaille

Friday, September 6, 2019
Title: Identifying New Paradigms in Crystal Engineering for Energy and Biomedical Applications
Prof. Jeff Rimer, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston
Host: Richards

Friday, September 13, 2019
Title: Using enzymes to build, break and read hybrid DNA nanomaterials: from nanoscale self-assembly to intracellular gene regulation
Prof. Jessica Rouge, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut
Host: McGuirk

Friday, September 20, 2019
Title: Rational Design Approaches for Remediation of Perfluoroalkyl Substances
Prof. Shubham Vyas, Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 27, 2019
Title: Chemistry Faculty Research Presentations

Host: Trewyn

Friday, October 4, 2019
Title: Illuminating the Bioinorganic Chemistry of Hormone Biology
Prof. Marie Heffern, Department of Chemistry, University of California – Davis
Host: McGuirk

Friday, October 11, 2019
Title: Gas Storage in Porous Coordination Cages
Prof. Eric Bloch, Department of Chemistry, University of Delaware
Host: McGuirk

Friday, October 18, 2019
Title: Structural and Mechanistic Investigation on Metalloproteins by Synchrotron Light-Based Techniques
Prof. Limei Zhang, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Host: Morrison

Friday, October 25, 2019
Title: Infectiously Inorganic: A Metallocentric View of Antimicrobial Activity
Prof. Katherine Franz, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
Host: Domaille

Friday, November 1, 2019
Title: Predictive Modeling of Nanoporous Materials: High-Throughput Screening, Machine Learning, and First Principles Simulations
Prof. J. Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota.
Host: Williams

Friday, November 8, 2019
Title:

Host:

Friday, November 15, 2019
Title: Neutron Scattering to Characterize Adsorbents
Dr. Craig Brown, NIST
Host: Gennett

Friday, November 22, 2019
Title: Nanomedicine for nuclear imaging and drug delivery: what needs of characterization for what challenges?
Prof. Sandrine Huclier, University of Nantes (France)
Host: Williams and Jensen

Friday, November 29, 2019
No seminar – Thanksgiving

Friday, December 6, 2019
Final exams begin – no seminar

Friday, January 11, 2019
Title: 30 Years of “Organic First” at the University of Michigan (plus a model for sustaining instructional development)
Prof. Brian Coppola, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Host: Sellinger

Friday, January 18, 2019
Title: Elucidating Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Mechanisms Underpinning the Catalytic Generation of Renewable Fuels
Prof. Jillian Dempsey, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina
Host: Student-Invited Speaker Committee

Friday, January 25, 2019
Title: Connecting Protein Structure, Function, and Interfacial Dynamics with Single-Molecule Methods
Prof. Joel Kaar, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado
Host: Domaille

Friday, February 01, 2019
Title: Inverted Metamorphic Multijunction III-Vs for High-efficiency Photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Production Systems: Challenges in Absorber Stabilization and Device Scale-up
Dr. Todd Deutsch, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Trewyn

Friday, February 08, 2019
Title: Redox-facilitated ion transfer across water-oil interfaces in solvent extraction systems
Dr. Mark Antonio, Argonne National Lab
Host: Shafer

Friday, February 15, 2019
Title: New Strategies in Laser-Based Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Biological, Geological, and Synthetic Samples
Prof. Luke Hanley, University of Illinois – Chicago
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, February 22, 2019
Title: Fluorinated Organic Materials for Energy Generation, Storage, and Transport Applications
Dr. Wade Braunecker, NREL
Host: Gennett

Friday, March 01, 2019
No Seminar – Visit weekend

Friday, March 08, 2019
Title: Bioinspired Electrocatalysts for Converting CO₂ and Water to Complex Carbohydrates by Energy-Efficient Carbon-Carbon Coupling
Prof. Gerard Dismukes, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University
Host: Posewitz

Friday, March 15, 2019
Title: Coordination Chemistry of +3 Actinides
Dr. Stosh Kozimor, LANL
Host: Shafer

Friday, March 22, 2019
Title: Utilization of Redox-Active Ligands in the f-Block: From Lanthanides to Uranium and Beyond
Prof. Suzanne Bart, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
Host: Shafer and Jensen

Friday, March 29, 2019
No Seminar – Spring Break

Friday, April 05, 2019
Title: The role of surface chemistry in nanomaterial interactions with ecosystems
Prof. Jason Unrine, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Kentucky
Host: Ranville

Friday, April 12, 2019 
Title: Exploiting Geometric Effects in Selective Hydrogenation via Intermetallic Catalysts
Dr. Randall Meyer, ExxonMobil
Host: Richards

Friday, April 19, 2019 
Title: How to Take a Scientific Idea and Use Academic Research to Make a Commercial Product
Prof. Joseph Pesek, Department of Chemistry, San Jose State University
Host: Williams

Friday, April 26, 2019 
Title:
Prof. Daniel Resasco, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Host: Richards

Friday, May 03, 2019– Dead Day
No Seminar – Dead Day

Friday, August 24, 2018
Title: Basic science- an engineering tool for enhanced synthetic biology performance
Dr. Gayle Bentley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Posewitz

Friday, August 31, 2018
Title: Chemistry Faculty Research Presentations
Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 7, 2018
Title: Anion Recognition: Towards Computer-aided Design of Receptors
Prof. Amar Flood, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Host: Vyas

Friday, September 14, 2018
Title: Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis: From Metabolic Pathways to Metabolons
Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, September 21, 2018
Title: Chemistry Faculty Research Presentations
Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 28, 2018
Title: Biocatalysis and Complex Molecule Synthesis
Prof. Alison Narayan, University of Michigan
Host: Domaille

Friday, October 5, 2018
Title: Chemical Tools for Delivery of Reactive Sulfur Species
Prof. Michael Pluth, University of Oregon
Host: Domaille

Friday, October 12, 2018 – Visiting Committee
No Seminar

Friday, October 19, 2018
Title: Molecular Design of Next-Generation Organic Scintillators
Dr. Patrick Feng, Sandia National Lab
Host: Student-Invited Speaker Committee

Friday, October 26, 2018
Title: Photoassisted Synthesis of Complex Polyheterocyclic Molecular Architectures
Prof. Andrei Kutateladze, University of Denver
Host: Vyas

Friday, November 2, 2018
Title: Exploring the Actinide Series from Periodic Trends to Electronic Structure and Bonding
Dr. Samantha Schrell, LANL
Host: Shafer

Friday, November 9, 2018
Title: Structure and Dynamics of Electrolytes: From Bulk to the Interface
Prof. Revati Kumar, LSU
Host: Vyas

Friday, November 16, 2018 – Thanksgiving department dinner
No seminar

Friday, November 23, 2018 – Thanksgiving break
No seminar

Friday, November 30, 2018
Title: A Chemical Intersection of Actinide and Transition Metal Chemistry
Dr. Richard Wilson, ANL
Host: Shafer

Friday, December 7, 2018 – Dead Day
No seminar

Friday, January 12, 2018
Title: On-line monitoring and sensor development for the nuclear fuel cycle 
Dr. Amanda Lines, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Host: Shafer

Friday, January 19, 2018
Title: Radiolytic stability of N,N-dialkyl amide: impact on Pu(IV) complexes in solution 
Dr. Jessica Drader, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (French CEA)
Host: Shafer

Friday, January 26, 2018
Title: Biomass Pyrolysis Vapor Upgrading using Mo₂C Unravels Promise and Challenges with HDO Catalysts
Dr. Calvin Mukarakate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Trewyn

Friday, February 02, 2018
Title: Ions, Electrons, and Phonons: on the movement of charge through solids
Prof. Brent Melot, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California
Host: Sellinger

Monday February 05, 2018
Title: Materials Beyond Cyclodextrins : Emergence Opens Up a Whole New World
Prof. J. Fraser Stoddart, 2016 Nobel Laureate, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Host: Chemistry Graduate Student Committee

Friday, February 09, 2018
Title:

Host:

Friday, February 16, 2018
Title: Activating ions for asymmetric catalysis: Experiments and computations
Prof. Richard Paton, Colorado State University
Host: Vyas

Friday, February 23, 2018
Title: Aqueous Separations and Radiochemistry at Idaho National Laboratory: Developing Improved Complexants for Enhanced Trivalent 4f / 5f-element Separations
Dr. Colt Heathman, Idaho National Laboratory
Host: Shafer

Friday, March 02, 2018
Title: Machine learning directed search for sustainable ultraincompressible, high hardness materials
Prof. Jakoah Brgoch, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston
Host: Trewyn

Friday, March 09, 2018
Title: Tuning the rates of key solar photoconversion processes with chromophore and crystal engineering
Dr. Justin Johnson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Sellinger

Friday, March 16, 2018
Title:

Host:

Friday, March 23, 2018
No seminar – ACS Meeting

Friday, March 30, 2018
No seminar – Spring Break

Friday, April 06, 2018
Title: Chemical research at Dow Chemical
Dr. Beata Kilos, Inorganic Materials and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Core R&D, Dow Chemical Company
Host: Richards

Friday, April 13, 2018
Title: Actinide sorption to metal oxide minerals: Surface mediated reduction and other surface “aging” processes
Prof. Brian Powell, Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, Clemson
Host: Shafer

Friday, April 20, 2018
Title: Inorganic Solutions to Semiconductor Problems: Synthesis of Binary and Ternary Phosphide Nanocrystals for Energy Applications
Prof. Javier Vela, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Host: Trewyn

Friday, April 27, 2018
Title: One rad protein: Towards understanding the redox flipping mechanism of the radical S-adenosylmethionine protein, MftC
Prof. John Latham, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver
Host: Vyas

Friday, May 04, 2018
Title:

Host:

Friday, September 1, 2017
Title: Understanding the Fundamental Reactions Involved in Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 
Prof. Anne Co, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, September 8, 2017
Title: Bio-inspired Coordination Complexes and Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion
Prof. Smaranda C. Marinescu, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California
Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 15, 2017
Title: Small Molecule Storage and Activation with Novel Metal-Organic Materials
Prof. Eric Bloch, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 22, 2017
Title: Developing New Coordination Chemistry Driven Approaches for Rare Earth Element Separations
Prof. Eric Shelter, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Shafer

Friday, September 29, 2017
Title: Directed Self-Assembly to Nanopattern Surfaces: Polymers, Patterns, and Plasmons
Prof. Jillian Buriak, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta
Host: Chemistry Graduate Student Committee

Friday, October 06, 2017
Title: Revealing biomass catalytic fast pyrolysis upgrading: from diffusion to reaction classes
Dr. Seonah Kim, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Vyas

Friday, October 13, 2017
Title: Selective Production of 1-Octene from Ethylene: A Big Effort for a Small Molecule
Dr. Uriah Kilgore, Chevron-Phillips Chemical
Host: Trewyn

Friday, October 20, 2017
Title: The Dance of Atoms and Charge in Real-World Conditions: A Mechanistic Approach towards Safe and Efficient Batteries and Fuel Cells
Prof. Faisal Alamgir, School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, October 27, 2017
Title: Chemistry and Biology of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) and Related Hydropersulfides (RSSH)
Prof. John Toscano, Department of Chemistry, John Hopkins
Host: Vyas

Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Title: Assembly and Disassembly of Layered Materials
Prof. Thomas Mallouk, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Trewyn

Friday, November 03, 2017
Title: Mechanisms and Dynamics of Organic Reactions
Prof. Ken Houk, Department of Chemistry, UCLA
Host: Vyas

Friday, November 10, 2017
Title: Unraveling Photosynthetic Mechanisms Required for Environmental Fitness in Algae
Dr. Ben Lucker, Director of Algal Studies, Center for Advanced Algal and Plant Phenotyping, Michigan State University
Host: Posewitz

Friday, November 17, 2017
Title: Actinide sorption to metal oxide minerals: Surface mediated reduction and other surface “aging” processes
Prof. Brian Powell, Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, Clemson
Host: Shafer

Friday, November 24, 2017
Thanksgiving break – no seminar

Friday, November 31, 2017
Title: Ethylene Epoxidation on Silver
Dr. Travis Jones, Inorganic Chemistry – Electronic Structure Group, Fritz-Haber Institute, Max Planck Institute – Gesellschaft
Host: Eberhart

Friday, December 01, 2017
Title: From Atoms to Reactors: How Computational Modeling can Enable the Bioenergy Economy
Dr. David Robichaud, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Richards

Friday, December 08, 2017
Title: Oxygen Reduction at Platinum Group Metal-free Electrocatalysts: Progress in Performance and Understanding of Reaction Mechanism
Dr. Piotr Zelenay, Los Alamos National Lab
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, January 13, 2017
Title: Elucidating Synthesis and Reaction Mechanisms for Catalyst Design on a Molecular Scale
Professor Ayman M. Karim, Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, January 20, 2017
Title: Single Atoms and Support Effects for Controlling Catalysis by Supported Noble Metals
Professor Phillip Christopher, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Riverside
Host: Trewyn

Friday, January 27, 2017
Title: Analytical Science: the heart and soul of new materials and chemistry innovation
Dr. Paul O’Connor, Project Manager, The Dow Chemical Company
Host: Williams

Friday, February 03, 2017
Title: Sorbent Design, Characterization, and Testing for Pollutant Removal from Fossil Fuels
Professor Jennifer Wilcox, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Trewyn

Friday, February 10, 2017
Carbon Nitrides: Materials for Energy Applications
Professor Paul McMillan, University College London
Host: Jensen

Friday, February 24, 2017
A New Twist on Old Chemistry: Organic Peroxides as RO+ Synthons
Prof. Patrick Dussault, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska
Host: Jensen

Friday, March 03, 2017
Hydrogen Storage Characterization and Optimization Research Effort (HySCORE)
Dr. Tom Gennett, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Jensen

Friday, March 10, 2017
Title: Solution and Solid State Reactivity of Vinylazides
Prof. Anna Gudmundsdottir, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
Host: Vyas

Friday, March 17, 2017
Title: Clinical Applications for Simultaneous Identification and Antimicrobial Resistance Determination of Bacterial Pathogens
Nicholas Saichek, Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Voorhees

Friday, March 24, 2017
Title: Multifunctional Hybrid Silica-Based Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment
Professor Juan Luis Vivero-Escoto, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Host: Trewyn

Friday, April 07, 2017
Title: The Oxidation of Rubrene Revisited: Unexpected Intramolecular Rearrangement
Professor Alejandro L. Briseno, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Host: Sellinger

Friday, April 14, 2017
Title: Atomic-Resolution Spectroscopic Imaging and In Situ Environmental Study of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts
Dr Huolin Xin, Center for Functinal Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Host: Richards

Friday, April 21, 2017
Title: Transformations of manufactured nanoparticles in environmental and biological media
Professor Jamie Lead, Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk, University of South Carolina
Host: Ranville

Friday, April 28, 2017
Title: Ethylene Epoxidation on Silver
Dr. Travis Jones, Inorganic Chemistry – Electronic Structure Group, Fritz-Haber Institute, Max Planck Institute – Gesellschaft
Host: Eberhart

Friday, September 2, 2016
Title: New Strategies to Achieve Photoactivation of Biomolecules Using Visible Light
Prof. Arthur Winter, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Host: Vyas

Friday, September 9, 2016
Title: Catalytic upgrading of microbial acids to renewable polymer precursors
Dr. Derek Vardon, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US DOE
Host: Richards

Friday, September 16, 2016
Title: Understanding Transport in Nano- and Micro-Scale Porous Media
Prof. Iryna V. Zenyuk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, September 23, 2016
Title: Environmental Aquatic Chemistry on a Computer
Prof. J. Samuel Arey, Environmental Chemistry Modeling Laboratory, École Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne
Host: Voelker

Friday, September 30, 2016
Title: Empty and Endohedral Fullerenes: New Structures and Unique Reactivity
Prof. Luis Echegoyen, University of Texas at El Paso
Host: Sellinger

Friday, October 7, 2016
Title: Biological coordination of f-elements: from nuclear decontamination to targeted radiotherapy
Dr. Rebecca Abergel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Braley

Friday, October 14, 2016
Title: Understanding the Relationships Between Molecular and Macroscopic Properties of Multicomponent Liquids
Prof. Aurora Clark, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University
Host: Braley

Friday, October 21, 2016
Title: Porous Metal Oxides and Sulfides and Their Applications in Adsorption, Batteries, and Catalysis
Prof. Steven L. Suib, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut
Host:Yongan Yang

Friday, Cctober 28, 2016
Title: Mass Spectrometric Innovations for Metabolomics
Professor Richard A. Yost, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
Host: Voorhees

Friday, November 4, 2016
Title: From Nanocage to Malleable Thermosets: An Adventure in Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Prof. Wei Zhang, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado – Boulder
Host:Yongan Yang

Friday, November 18, 2016
Title: Archaeal membrane lipid-based liposomes as potential carriers for oral delivery of therapeutic peptides
Professor Martin Brandl, University of Southern Denmark
Host: Williams

Friday, December 2, 2016
Title: Noble Metal Nanoparticles and Porous Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis, Separations, and Chemical Sensing
Professor Simon Humphrey, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas – Austin
Host: Trewyn

Friday, January 15, 2016
Prof. Peter de B. Harrington
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University
Host: Voorhees

Friday, January 22, 2016
Title: In Situ Chemical and Tomographic X-ray Microscopy
Dr. Johanna Weker
SLAC
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, January 29, 2016
Title: MRI of Batteries and Electrochemical Devices
Dr. Alexej Jerschow
New York University
Host: Yuan Yang

Friday, February 5, 2016
Title: Understanding the Nucleation of Molecular Crystals
Prof. Erik Santiso
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State
Host: Wu

Friday, February 12, 2016
Title: Developing Therapeutic Approaches against Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction
Prof. Christopher Hadad
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
Host: Vyas

Friday, February 19, 2016
Title: Will This Chemical Kill That? Problems and Surprises in Disinfection
Prof. Richard Robison
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, BYU
Host: Cox

Friday, February 26, 2016
Title: Biological Conversion Strategies Targeting Renewable Biofuels and Bioproducts
Dr. Michael Guarnieri
National Bioenergy Center’s Applied Biology Group, NREL
Host: Posewitz

Friday, March 4, 2016
Title: Chemical Tools for Unique Applications: Monitoring Spacecraft Water Quality and Teaching Chemistry to Students with Blindness or Low Vision
Prof. April Hill
Department of Chemistry, Metro State University
Host: Trewyn

Friday, March 11, 2016
Title: Laser-Rrefrigeration of Fluoride Nanocrystals in Liquid Water
Prof. Peter Pauzauskie
Material Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Host: Richards

Friday, March 25, 2016
Title: Regioselective Bis-Additions to Empty and Endohedral Clusterfullerenes: Tether or Cluster Control?
Prof. Luis Echegoyen
Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso
Host: Sellinger

Friday, April 8, 2016
Title: Architecture at the nanoscale: Design principles for next-generation catalysts in energy applications
Prof. Yuriy Roman
Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Richards

Friday, April 15, 2016
Title: Solution and solid-state structural chemistry of tetravalent actinide-ligand complexes
Prof. Karah Knope
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University
Host: Jensen

Friday, April 22, 2016
Title: Recent Advances in the Development of Carbon-Based Materials with Tailored Porosity, Morphology and Surface Properties
Prof. Mietek Jaroniec
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, April 29, 2016
Title: Doping and Charging Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Prof. Daniel R. Gamelin
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Host: Richards

Friday, August 28, 2015
Title: Development and application of selective based separations for carbohydrate analysis in the biofuel industry
Dr. James Oliver
Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Williams

Friday, September 4, 2015
Title: Irrelevance of CO Poisoning of Pt in Methanol and Formic Acid Oxidation on PtRu Surfaces
Prof. YuYe Jay Tong
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University
Host: Yongan Yang

Friday, September 11, 2015
Title: Diffusion Deconvolved: Quantifying Molecular and Morphological Contributions to Transport in Polymers
Prof. Louis Madsen
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech
Host: Yuan Yang

Friday, September 18, 2015
Title: Solutions that behave colloidal: how self-assembly drives extractive metallurgy
Dr. Ross Ellis
Argonne National Lab
Host: Jensen

Friday, September 25, 2015
Title: Carbon-based ORR catalysts in acidic media
Prof. Umit Ozkan
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, October 2, 2015
Title: Design and Synthesis of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Superior Catalytic Properties
Prof. Wenyu Huang
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, IA
Host: Trewyn

Friday, October 16, 2015
Title: Amine-Modified Silicates as Acid/Base Bifunctional Catalysts and Catalyst Supports
Prof. Christopher Jones
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech
Host: Trewyn

Friday, October 23, 2015
Title: Spies, Secret Cities and Nuclear Events You Never Heard Of: Consequences and Risks from Exposures to Ionizing Radiation.
Prof. Scott Miller
Nano Institute of Utah, The University of Utah
Host: Jensen

Friday, October 30, 2015
Title: The Softer Side of Actinide Chemistry
Prof. Justin R. Walensky
Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri
Host: Braley

Friday, November 6, 2015
Title: Lifetime of Materials Programmed by Molecular Design
Prof. Jeff Moore
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Sellinger

Friday, November 13, 2015
Title: Organic/Organometallic Chemistry by Design: Batteries, Big Energy, and Bio-sensing
Barbara Hughes, NREL
Host: Richards

Friday, January 9, 2015
Title: A New Class of Aptamers for Life Scince Research, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics
Dr. Larry Gold
SomaLogic, Inc.
Host: Voorhees

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (special seminar) Brown Hall W280
Title: New Vistas in Zeolite Catalysis: Confinement, Electron Transfer and Lewis Acidity
Prof. Raul Lobo
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware
Host: Ciobanu & Trewyn

Friday, January 16, 2015
Title: Biosensors for early cancer detection based upon electrical interfaces to virus particles
Prof. Reg Penner
Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of California – Irvine
Host: Yongan Yang

Monday, January 19, 2015
Title: Noncoding RNA: When the message is not the message
Prof. Thomas Cech
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado – Boulder
Host: Wu

Friday, January 23, 2015
Title: Basking in the Glow of Californium
Prof. Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University
Host: Braley

Friday, January 30, 2015
Title: Targeted Paramagnetic Complexes for Sensing, Solar, and Other Aspects of World Domination
Prof. Matthew Shores
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Host: Braley

Friday, February 6, 2015
Title: Reactions of Perfluoroalkyl Radicals with PAHs: Substitutions, Additions, Mechanistic Insights, Solid-State Pi-Stacking, Charge-Transfer Complexes with Electron Donors, and the Remarkable Effect of RF Chain Length on Electron Affinity
Dr. Steven H. Strauss
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Host: Sellinger

Friday, February 13, 2015
Title: Chemical Predictive Modeling in Actinide Chemistry and Catalysis
Dr. Ping Yang
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL
Host: Braley

Friday, February 20, 2015
Title: Mechanistic Understanding of Li Transport and Phase Transitions in Rechargeable Batteries
Prof. Reza Shahbazian-Yassar
Department of Material Engineering, Michigan Tech
Host: Yang

Friday, February 27, 2015
Title: Biofuel Cells: Advances & Challenges
Prof. Plamen Atanassov
University of New Mexico
Host: Pylypenko

Friday, March 20, 2015
Title: Polymer Characterization by Temperature Gradient Interaction Chromatography
Dr. Taihyun Chang
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
Host: Kim Williams

Friday, March 27, 2015
Title: Molecular Compositions, Structures, and Thermodynamic Stability of Advanced Ceramics and Inorganic Nanomaterials
Dr. Scarlett Widgeon
Department of Chemical Engineering, UCSB
Host: David Wu

Friday, April 3, 2015
Title: Molecular precursor approaches to the design and synthesis of catalytic materials for renewable fuels production
Dr. Daniel Ruddy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Host: Trewyn

Friday, April 24, 2015
Title: Materials by Design for Energy Storage Applications
Prof. Hailong Chen
School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Host: Yang

Friday, May 1, 2015
Title: Cyanobacterial cell factories: catalysts for photosynthetic conversion of CO2 toterpenoid hydrocarbons
Dr. Fiona K. Davies
Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Posewitz

Friday, September 5, 2014
Title: Ion Transport and Stability of High Energy Lithium Batteries
Prof. Lynden Archer
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Host: Yang

Friday, September 12, 2014
Title: Active Learning, Flipped Classroom, Peer Instruction — Buzzword Concepts Applied to Online and Blended Learning
Prof. Klaus Woelk
Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T)
Host: Wu

Friday, September 19, 2014
Title: Development, Implementation, and Assessment of an Integrated Lab-Lecture Format for Undergraduate Science Courses
Prof. Maria T. Oliver-Hoyo
Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
Host: Caster

Friday, September 26, 2014
Title: Measuring order and disorder in nanoscale semiconductors with enhanced sensitivity and resolution
Prof. Bradley Chmelka
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California – Santa Barbara
Host: Sellinger

Friday, October 3, 2014
Title: Acquisition of Fe by aerobic microbes: What the geochemical community can learn from the biomedical community and vice versa
Prof. Patricia Maurice
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Host: Voelker

Friday, October 10, 2014
Title: Controls on dissolved organic carbon oxidation in arctic soils and surface waters
Prof. Rose Cory
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
Host: Voelker

Friday, October 17, 2014
Title: Mechanisms Controlling Actinide Redox Speciation at the Solid-Water Interface
Prof. Amy Hixon
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Science, University of Notre Dame
Host: Braley

Friday, October 24, 2014
Title: Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals: Moving from Academic Studies to Industrial Applications
Prof. Younan Xia
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech
Host: Yang

Friday, October 31, 2014
Title: Nuclear Forensics at Savannah River National Laboratory
Dr. Glenn Fugate
Savannah River National Lab
Host: Braley

Friday, November 7, 2014
Title: Mechanistic Studies of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthetically Useful Organic Reactions
Prof. Xiaotai Wang
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado – Denver
Host: Yang

Friday, November 14, 2014
Title: TBA
Prof. Matthew Kanan
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Host: Richards

Friday, December 5, 2014
Prof. Alexander Katz
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California – Berkeley
Host: Trewyn

Friday, January 10, 2014
Small Molecule Design for Organic Electronics
Professor John Anthony
Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
Host: Sellinger

Friday, January 17, 2014
How Does Bioavailability of Metal Based Engineered Nanomaterials Influence Their Ecological and Health Implications
Professor Samuel Luoma
John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California – Davis
Host: Ranville

Friday, January 24, 2014
Title: Radiochemistry and the Study of Chemisorption
Dr. Bob Rundberg
Los Alamos National Lab
Host: Braley

Friday, February 14, 2014
Title: Stimuli Responsive Polymer-Based Sensors, Muscles, and Actuators
Prof. Michael Serpe
Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta
Host: Boyes

Friday, February 21, 2014
Title: The Inherently Dynamic Behavior of Catalysts
Prof. Susannah Scott
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California – Santa Barbara
Host: Richards

Thursday, February 27, 2014
Title: Rational engineering and photo-affinity labeling of paraoxonase-1 as a catalytic bioscavenger against nerve agents: a computational and ultrafast spectroscopic study
Dr. Shubham Vyas
Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Posewitz

Friday, February 28, 2014
Title: Nanostructure and Molecular Dynamics of Elastomeric Polyurea Copolymers
Prof. James Runt
Department of Material Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Knauss

Thursday, March 6, 2014 – 10 am, 209 Coolbaugh Hall
Title: Reverse Engineering Spider’s Silk: Using NMR to Determine Structure, Dynamics and Assembly
Dr. Gregory Holland
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
Host: Posewitz

Friday, March 7, 2014
Title: Supramolecular Stereochemistry in Liquid Crystals: From pico projectors to the first fluid conglomerate to organic nanoparticles for Photovoltaics
Prof. David Walba
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado – Boulder
Host: Sellinger

Monday, March 10, 2014 – 10 am, 209 Coolbaugh Hall
Title: Time-resolved pump probe microscopy of ultrafast carrier dynamics in silicon nanowires
Dr. Erik Grumstrup
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Host: Posewitz

Friday, March 21, 2014
Title: Dramatic nano-fluidic properties of carbon nanotube membranes as a platform for protein channel mimetic pumps
Prof. Bruce Hinds
Department of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky
Host: Trewyn

Friday, March 28, 2014
Title: Molecular approaches toward the development of efficient electrocatalysts and catalysts for chemical energy conversion and storage
Dr. Eranda Nikolla
Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Wayne State University
Host: Trewyn & Richards

Friday, April 4, 2014
Title: Inorganic Synthesis for Designing Better Li-Ion Battery Electrodes
Prof. Bart Bartlett
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Host: Yang

Friday, April 11, 2014
Title: Nanostructured Composites for Energy Storage Applications
Prof. Gleb Yushin
School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
Host: Yang

Thursday, April 17, 2014 – Special seminar 219 CO 4 pm
Wall of Fame
Host: Voorhees

Friday, April 18, 2014
Title: Mutually Tuning Optoelectronic and Supramolecular Structure in Organic pi-Systems
Prof. Ron Castellano
Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
Host: MME and Sellinger

Friday, April 25, 2014
Special Seminar at 12 pm in 131 Coolbaugh Hall
Title: Mentorship for Young Scientists: Developing Scientific Survival Skills
Dr. Federico Rosei
University du Quebec

Friday, April 25, 2014
Title: Multifunctional Materials for Electronics and Photonics
Dr. Federico Rosei
University du Quebec
Host: Richards

Friday, May 2, 2014
Dr. Feng Lin
Colorado School of Mines/LLNL
Host: Richards

Friday, September 6, 2013
Title: International Collaborations on Nanomaterials Characterization: A tale of two cities
Prof. Jim Ranville
Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Trewyn

Friday, September 13, 2013
Title: The Synthesis and TGIC Characterisation of Complex Polymers Synthesised by the Macromonomer Approach
Prof. Lian Hutchins
University of Durham, United Kingdom
Host: Williams

Friday, September 20, 2013
Title: Coupling of Computational and Experimental Methods to Study Real World Problems: From Chemical Warfare Poisoning to Environmental Sciences
Dr. Shubham Vyas
Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Voelker

Friday, September 27, 2013
Title: Conversion of biowaste silica to value added Si based materials including polymers and high purity silicon
Prof. Richard Laine
University of Michigan
Host: Sellinger

Friday, October 4, 2013
Title: Insight into metallo-enzyme evolution through multi-scale dynamics modeling
Prof. Anastassia Alexandrova
University of California – Los Angeles & CNSI
Host: Eberhart

Friday, October 11, 2013
Title: TDA’s conducting polymer platform and applications in flexible/printed electronics and medicine
Dr. Silvia Luebben
TCA Research
Host: Wu

Friday, October 18, 2013
Title: The fuel cycle science and technology division of the Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Terry Todd
Idaho National Laboratory
Host: Braley

Friday, November 1, 2013
Title: Catalytic reactions of oxygenates relevant to the conversion of biorenewable materials
Prof. Aaron Sadow
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Host: Trewyn

Friday, November 8, 2013
Title:The ethics of scientific writing: How to write and how not to write a paper
Prof. Gary Christian
University of Washington
Host: Voorhees

Friday, November 15, 2013
Title: Low Temperature Synthesis of Oxide Nanocrystals: Structure and Application
Prof. Richard Brutchey
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California
Host: Trewyn

Friday, November 22, 2013
Title: Synthetic Design Tools for Complex Inorganic Solids and Nanostructures
Prof. Raymond Schaak
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Trewyn