Seminars

Fiscal Year 2010/2011

Molecular Catalysts for Generating Hydrogen from Water

Date: Friday, January 7, 2011
Time: 4:00PM
Place: MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Speaker: Hemamala I. Karundasa, California Institute of Technology  
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Department of Chemistry

Putting Chemistry to Work for Nano and Bio-Research

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM
Place: MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Speaker: Younan Xia, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Department of Chemistry

Design and Synthesis of Advanced Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Applications - from Extended Surfaces to Nanoscale Architecture

Date: Monday, December 6, 2010 
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: MacMillan Hall, Room 115 
Speaker: Chao Wang 
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Department of Chemistry

Molding the Flow of Light: from Optically Amplified Photocatalysts to Plasmon-based Biosensors

Date: Friday, December 3, 2010 
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: MacMillan Hall, Room 115 
Speaker: Jennicer I-Ling Chen, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Department of Chemistry

Materials in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic States – on the oxygen electrodes in energy technologies

Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 
Time: 12:00PM 
Place: Barus Holley, Room 190 
Speaker: Xiao-Dong Zhou, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of So. Carolina
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Department of Chemistry

Core-shell Silicon Nanowires as Solar Cells with Tunable Optical and Electronic Properties

Date: Tuesday, November 30,  2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Mac Millian Hall, Room 115
Speaker: James Cahoon, Harvard University
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Department of Chemistry

All-Inorganic Design of Nanoscystal Solids: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Date: Tuesday, November 23,2010
Time: 4:00PM
Place: Mac Millian Hall, Room 115 
Speaker: Maksym Kovalenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago