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Current & Past Lectures

 

December 5, 2025

Molecular Insights into Atmospheric Organic Aerosol: Optical Properties, Gas-Particle Partitioning, and Viscosity Assessment

October 25, 2024

Purely Organic Emitters for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs): A Journey though Organic Electronics

November 10, 2023

Probing Radical SAM Reactivity via Time-Resolved Freeze Quench EPR: A Step-Wise Walk-Through the Radical Menagerie

December 2, 2022

Polymeric Materials for Lifecycle Control

November 5, 2021

Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry

November 8, 2019

New Synthetic Methods for C-F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications

October 12, 2018

Enterface Science of Emerging Solar Cell Technologies

October 27, 2017

Single-Nanoparticle Sensors of Nano-bio Interactions

October 14, 2016

The Design of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials

October 16, 2015

From Planar Boron Clusters to Borophene & Borospherene

April 17, 2015

New Polymers from Old Monomers: Advances Enabled through Catalyst Design and Discovery

October 25, 2013

Zero- to Three-Dimensional Carbon-Based Materials for Energy Storage

October 19, 2012

Understanding Interfaces in Air: The Last Frontier in Atmospheric Chemistry?

  • Dr. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, University of California, Irvine
  • 2012 Brochure
September 23, 2011

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies

  • Prof. Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 29, 2011

Heterogeneous Catalysis and Energy Efficiency:  Lessons from Surface Chemistry

  • Prof. Cynthia Friend, Harvard University
October 2, 2009

Self-Assembly Processes for Constructing Unconventional Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Electronic Circuitry

October 27, 2008

New Tools and Techniques for Chemistry

  • Prof. Gary M. Hieftje, Indiana University
October 26, 2007

Polymer Electronics for Ultra-Trace Chemical Sensors

  • Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 6, 2007

Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites

  • Prof. Ed Solomon, Stanford University
September 30, 2005

Radicals, Reactive Intermediates and Transition States: Spectroscopy along the Reaction Coordinate

  • Prof. W. Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado
September 30, 2004

Selective, Yet General Catalysts

  • Prof. Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University
October 24, 2003

From Protein-Sized Clusters to Super-Supramolecular Chemistry

  • Prof. Dr. Achim Müller, Universität Bielefeld
October 11, 2002

Metal Nanoparticles: Analytical and Electron Transfer Chemistry

  • Prof. Royce W. Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
October 5, 2001

Functional Analogs of Cytochrome C Oxidase: Is Copper-b Really Necessary?

  • Prof. James P. Collman, Stanford University
November 17, 2000

Catalysts for the Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules

  • Prof. Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology
October 14, 1999

Breaking Up Is Never Easy: A Twisted Tale of a Photofragment's Escape from the Bonds of Molecular Matrimony

  • Prof. Richard N. Zare, Stanford University
November 11, 1998

Molecular Assembly and Encapsulation

  • Prof. Julius Rebek, Jr., Scripps Research Institute
March 6, 1998

Anti-Crown Chemistry: Electrophilic Metallacyclic Hosts Supported by Carborane Cages

  • Prof. M. Frederick Hawthorne, University of California at Los Angeles