September
5
TBA
(Host: )
September 12
Dr. Brian A. Gregg
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
"Excitonic Semiconductors and Solar Cells"
(Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar)
September 19
Prof. Sergio Aragon
San Francisco State
University
"Accurate Hydrodynamic Transport Properties for Biomolecules"
(Host: Zoltan Schelly)
September 26
Prof. Karen J. Brewer
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Building Molecular Devices: Applications in Solar Energy Conversion
and Photodynamic Therapy"
(Host: Fred MacDonnell)
October 3
Prof. Seth C. Rasmussen
North Dakota State University
"Nitrogen-Functionalized Polythiophenes: Potential Routes to New Low
Bandgap Materials"
(Host: Marty Pomerantz)
October 10
Prof. Kenneth G. Caulton
Indiana University
"Computational and Experimental Approaches to the Designed Cleavage
of Alkane C-H Bonds: Platinum(II) does it at Room Temperature"
(Host: Rasika Dias)
Wednesday,
October 15
Prof. Robert E. Maleczka, Jr.
Michigan State University
"Telescoping Organometallic Reactions:
From the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products to the Preparation of
'Simple' Phenols"
(Host: Carl Lovely)
October
24
Dr. Martin W. Brechbiel
National Cancer Institute
"Biomedical Applications of Chelation Chemistry"
(Host: Dmitry Rudkevich)
October 31
Prof. Hans Griesser
University of South Australia
"Interactions between Biomaterial Surfaces and
Biomolecules"
(Host: Richard Timmons)
November
7
Greg Browning
University of Texas at Arlington
"Transition Metal Mediated Organic Synthesis: New Methods and New
Reactions"
(Host: Carl Lovely)
November
14
Prof. Robert A. Flowers, II
Texas Tech University
"Thermochemical and Mechanistic Studies of Sm(II)-Based Reductants"
(Host: Carl Lovely)
November
21
Prof. Aravamudan S. Gopalan
New Mexico State University
"Metal Ion Chelators for Biomedical and Environmental
Applications"
(Host: Dmitry Rudkevich)
November
28
Thanksgiving Holiday
December
5
Dr. John A. Turner
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
"The Renewable Hydrogen Economy"
(Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar)
