Nano Seminars

FINAL DEFENSE, Danielle Harrier , "Tunable encapsulations: droplet-based microfluidics for the expansion of biodegradable polymer technologies"

2:00 pm 4/1/2022

157 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Jason Adams , "Organic Species, Alloys, and Support Identity Control H2 and O2 Activation to H2O2 on Metal Nanoparticles""

9:00 am 4/4/2022

279 Davenport Hall

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FINAL DEFENSE, Cheng Zhang, "Development of Complex Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction""

10:00 am 4/4/2022

419 Roger Adams Lab

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Melissa Lucero, UIUC, Final Defense, "Rational Design of Chemical Tools for In Vivo Applications Via Photoacoustic Imaging"

10:00 am 4/4/2022

117 Roger Adams Lab

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FINAL DEFENSE, Nicholas Mason Wang , "Homogeneous Flow Catalysis for Lab-Scale Kinetic Investigation and Reaction Development"

9:30 am 4/5/2022

213 Gregory Hall

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FINAL DEFENSE: Sean Meyer, UIUC, "Expanding the Potential of Gold Nanorods: From Size Effects to Intrinsic Anisotropy", Advisor: Cathy Murphy

1:00 pm 4/5/2022

CLSL B124

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Andrew Weller, University of York, "Reactivity and Dynamic Process in Solid-State Organometallic Chemistry: Who Needs a Solvent?"

3:30 pm 4/5/2022

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CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Blake Ocampo, "Fundamentals and Modern Advances in Iron C-C Cross-Coupling"

4:00 pm 4/5/2022

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

Mr. Kendrich O Hatfield, UIUC Final Defense: Understanding the Interface: Probing Electrode Surfaces with Electrochemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

8:00 am 4/6/2022

171 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: David Bianchi, UIUC, "Multi-scale Simulation of Dynamic Biochemical Reaction Networks in Living Cells", Advisor: Zaida Luthey-Schulten

2:00 pm 4/6/2022

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Alexis Lower, "Microbes: the Future of Sustainable Fashion"

12:00 pm 4/7/2022

217 Noyes Lab

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Chem 585 Materials Literature Seminar: Jiayu Liu, UIUC, "Recent Advances in Supramolecular Polymer Networks: Hydrogels"

3:30 pm 4/7/2022

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Prof. Han Xiao, Rice University, "Bring the Power of Antibodies to the Bone"

4:00 pm 4/7/2022

116 Roger Adams Lab

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FINAL DEFENSE, Isamar Pastrana-Otero, "Development of single-cell Raman spectroscopy for noninvasively screening the differentiation of living stem and progenitor cells in biomaterial platforms for 2D and 3D cell culture"

1:00 pm 4/11/2022

279 Davenport Hall

Seminar/Symposium

Canceled - 3M Lecture, Dr. Mike Wendland, 3M rep, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm 4/11/2022

TBD

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Canceled - 3M Lecture, Prof. Oren A. Scherman, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"

5:00 pm 4/11/2022

TBD

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Bailar Lecture: Professor Karen Goldberg, U. Penn., "Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for our Chemicals and Liquid Fuels"

7:00 pm 4/11/2022

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. David Hibbitts, University of Florida, "Defining and Counting Reaction Site Requirements on Curved and Crowded Catalyst Surfaces""

2:00 pm 4/12/2022

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Bailar Lecture: Professor Karen Goldberg, U. Penn., "Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry"

4:00 pm 4/12/2022

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CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Danielle Loving, "Skeletal Surgery: Recent Advances in Molecular Editing Methodology"

4:00 pm 4/12/2022

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

Prof. Justin Caram, UCLA, "Exploring the extremes of excitonic photophysics"

2:00 pm 4/13/2022

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Zhenxiang Zhao, "Chemical Biology Approaches for Targeted Protein Aggregate Degradation in Alzheimer’s Disease via Autophagy"

12:00 pm 4/14/2022

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Canceled: (New date TBD yet) Christopher Huck, UIUC, Final Defense, "Novel Strategies for the Synthesis of Complex Terpenoids and Limonoids"

3:00 pm 4/15/2022

B102 Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory (Charles G. Miller Auditorium)

Seminar/Symposium

Dr. Amir Hosseini, University of Utah Title: Reductive Oxidation of Alcohols and Mechanistic Studies with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM)

4:00 pm 4/15/2022

Seminar/Symposium

SACNAS Invited Lecture: Prof. Osvaldo Gutierriez, Texas A&M University, "Mechanistic-Driven Development of Fe-Catalyzed Multicomponent Cross Coupling Reactions"

3:30 pm 4/19/2022

Seminar/Symposium

CANCELLED: Professor Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins, "Copper(I) Complex O2-Reactivity: Superoxo, Peroxo, Hydroperoxo and O-O Cleavage Chemistry"

3:30 pm 4/19/2022

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Prof. James McCusker, Michigan State University, "Tailoring the Photophysics of First-row Transition Metal-based Chromophores for Applications in Light-to-Chemical Energy Conversion: Challenges and Opportunities"

2:00 pm 4/20/2022

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Chong Liu, UCLA, "Non-equilibrium chemical and biological systems with microscopic electrochemical control""

3:30 pm 4/21/2022

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FINAL DEFENSE, Aastha Sharma, UIUC, "Ultrafast Carrier-Specific Dynamics of Organohalide Perovskites by Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy", Advisor: Joshua Vura-Weis

11:00 am 4/22/2022

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Yusef Shari'ati, UIUC, "Ultrathin, Ultraviolet, Ultrafast: Cobalt Cubane at the M-Edge", Advisor: Joshua Vura-Weis

2:00 pm 4/25/2022

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE Distinguished Michael O'Laughlin Lecture, Professor T. Alan Hatton, MIT, "Electrochemical Modulation of Sorbents for Selective CO2 Separation Processes"

2:00 pm 4/26/2022

116

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Professor David Goldberg, Johns Hopkins, "The Activation of Dioxygen at Heme and Nonheme Iron Centers: Fe(O2), Fe(O), and Fe(OH) Species and Their Roles in Oxidative Catalysis"

3:30 pm 4/26/2022

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CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Robert Serrano, "Copper Photocatalysis: Inception and Current Efforts"

4:00 pm 4/26/2022

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Edward Robert Jira , "AUTOMATED CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS FOR ACCELERATED DISCOVERY OF ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS""

10:00 am 4/27/2022

4269 Beckman Institute

Seminar/Symposium

Dr. Nicole Honesty, Solestial, "Adventures in the Fab: From High-Volume Manufacturing to Tech Start-up"

1:00 pm 4/28/2022

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Smaranda Marinescu, University of Southern California, "Biologically Inspired Coordination Complexes and Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion"

3:30 pm 4/28/2022

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Prof. Robert Paton, Colorado State, "Harnessing QM and ML to Predict Open-shell Reactivity and Stability"

4:00 pm 4/28/2022

IGB 612/614

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