Chemistry Seminar Series, Fall 2009

All seminars will be held on FRIDAYS at 11:30 in Hill Hall, room 107, on the Rutgers-Newark Campus, unless noted otherwise. A coffee social will precede each seminar at about 11:00 in the reading room on the third floor of Olson Hall.

SEP 18 Sankaran Thayumanavan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Molecule-to-Materials Approach to Harvesting Renewable Energy
OCT 16 Jing Li (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Porosity and Functionality: Structures, Properties and Potential Applications of MMOFs
OCT 23 Teddy Asefa (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Multifunctional Nanomaterials: Design, Synthesis and Application in Catalysis and Drug Delivery
OCT 30 Xinqiao Jia (University of Delaware) Elastomers: Functional Biomaterials by Design
NOV 06 Victor S. Batista (Yale Univeristy) Studies of Photocatalysis in Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis
NOV 20 Lin Chen (Northwestern Univeristy) Molecular Snapshots in Photochemical Processes for Solar Energy Conversion
DEC 11 Brent Sumerlin (Southern Methodist Univeristy) New Stimuli-responsive Macromolecules: Polymer Bioconjugates and "Sweet-tooth" Micelles