Prof. Til Opatz from the University of Mainz will present a seminar entitled, "Synthesis and Functionalization of Saturated and Aromatic Heterocycles." Host: Prof. Arduengo
Greg Dye will present his PhD seminar entitled, "Chemical Ordering in Metal-Based Composite Nanocrystals."
Dr. Mukund Chorghade, President of Chorghade Enterprises and Chief Scientific Officer of THINQ Pharma and Empiriko will present a seminar entitled, "Biomimiks™ as Chemosynthetic Livers: Predict, Prepare and Prove the Structure, Activity and Toxicity of Drug Metabolites" Host: Kevin Shaughnessy
Christopher Griggs will present his PhD Seminar entitled, "Ionic Liquids and Chitinous Biomass:Materials, Synthesis, and Applications for Uranium Sequestration."
Prof. Piotr Kaszyński from Vanderbilt University will present a departmental seminar entitled, "Liquid crystalline derivatives of p-delocalized radicals." Dr. Kaszyński's abstract Host: Silas Blackstock
The Department of Chemistry will recognize undergraduate and graduate students who have received department, UA, and national awards. A reception will follow in the Shelby Rotunda.
Prof. Michael Chabinyc from UC-Santa Barbara will present a seminar entitled, "Conjugated Materials for Thermoelectrics." Abstract: Organic semiconductors provide the opportunity for low-cost fabrication of novel flexible thin film electronics. There has been significant progress in organic light emitting diodes (commercial products), solar cells (efficiencies of 10%), and thin film transistors (carrier mobilities > 1 cm2/Vs). A new application for organic semiconducting materials is thermoelectric energy conversion. Thermoelectric devices convert thermal gradients to electrical potentials and by reciprocity the converse. [...]
Kim Anderson will present a PhD research seminar entitled, "Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Chalcogenide-PEDOT:PSS Polymer Composites for Thermal Energy Conversion."
Prof. Curtis Shannon from Auburn University will present a seminar entitled, "TBA." Host: Shanlin Pan
Michele Stover will present her PhD research seminar entitled, "Computational Studies of the Fundamental Thermodynamic Properties of Amino Acids and Small Peptides."