THE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ELECTRON CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS AT INTERFACES

电子化学和表面催化领域研究 -- 国际研究和教育合作团队




PAST PIRE-ECCI BI-WEEKLY SEMINARS




Spring Quarter, 2008

Date Time Location Speaker
May 14, 2008 3:00PM MRL 2053 Byeongdu Lee
Argonne National Laboratory

Talk Title: Scattering Studies of Nanoparticles and their Assemblies: Size-Selective Cluster and DNA-Programmed Nanoparticle Cluster.
May 28, 2008 3:00PM MSB 1302 Surya Prakash
George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry
University of Southern California

Talk Title: Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy.
June 11, 2008 3:00PM ESB 1001 Israel Wachs
G. Whitney Snyder Professor and
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Lehigh University

Talk Title: Selective Oxidation over Bulk Mixed Metal Vanadates and Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts.

Winter Quarter, 2008

Date Time Location Speaker
January 16, 2008 3:30PM ESB 1001 Henry White
Professor, Analytical Chemistry
University of Utah

Title: Electrochemistry in Synthetic and Biological Nanopores.
February 13, 2008 3:00PM ESB 1001 Musa Ahmed
Staff Scientist, LBNL
Chemical Dynamics Beamline
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Title: Aerosol Chemistry, Nanoparticle Physics, and Imaging Mass Spectrometry with Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Radiation.
February 27, 2008 3:30PM ESB 1001 Barr Halevi
Post-Doc, Scott Group
UC Santa Barbara

Title: Fundamental Studies of the Reactions of Alkyl Thiols and Sulfides on Metal-Oxide Model Catalysts.
March 12, 2008 3:30PM ESB 1001 Stefan Vajda
Chemist, Cluster Studies Group
Argonne National Laboratory

Title: The Effect of Size and Composition of Highly Monodisperse Nanocatalysts in Selective Partial Oxidation Reactions.

Fall Quarter, 2007

Date Time Location Speaker
September 26, 2007 3:30PM ESB 1001 Zdenek Dohnalek
Senior Research Scientist II
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Title: Defect and Adsorbate Dynamics on TiO2(110)
October 10, 2007 3:30PM ESB 1001 Francisco Zaera
Professor of Chemistry
UC Riverside

Title: The Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Conversion Catalysis: Regioselectivity, Stereoselectivity, and Enantioselectivity
December 5, 2007 3:30PM MRL 2053 Nathan S. Lewis
Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology

Title: Progress and Challenges in Solar Energy Conversion Using Semiconductor/Liquid Junctions.

Spring Quarter, 2007

Date Time Location Speaker
April 18, 2007 2:00PM Marine Science Building 1302 Gabor Somorjai
Professor of Chemistry
UC Berkeley

Frontiers of Surface Science. Structure, Bonding and Dynamics on the Nanoscale of High Pressures and at the Buried (solid-liquid and solid-solid) Interfaces.
May 2, 2007 3:30PM ESB - 1001 Raymond J. Gorte
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

Characterization of the Equilibrium Redox Properties of Mixed Oxides
May 16, 2007 3:30PM ESB - 1001 Andrew Kummel
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego

Low Drift Chemical Sensing Mechanisms of Organic Thin-Film Transistors
May 30, 2007 3:30PM MRL - 2053 Bruce D. Kay
Laboratory Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Using Nanoscale Amorphous Films to Study Processes in Supercooled Liquid Water and Liquid Solutions

Winter Quarter, 2007


Date Time Location Speaker
February 21, 2007 4:00PM Chemistry 1005D Eric McFarland
Professor of Chemical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

A Solid Cataloreactant Strategy for the Synthesis of Liquid Fuels and Chemicals from Methane
March 7, 2007 3:30PM MRL 2053 Alexis T. Bell
Professor of Chemical Engineering
UC Berkeley

Identifying the Relationships between Catalyst Composition and Structure and Catalyst Performance: Challenges for the Experimentalist and the Theoretician

 

Sir John Meurig Thomas
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London and
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

May 19, 2006
2:00-3:30 pm
Chem 1171

"The Advantage of Single Site Heterogeneous Catalysts"

 

Ron Naaman
Weizmann Institute April 5 2006

"Self-assembled monolayers- do they support a new electronic structure?"

 

John Tully
Yale, March 7 2006

 

Wayne Hess
PNNL, Feb 2006

 

Xinhe Bao

"Catalytic Chemistry of Confined Systems"

Date: November 10, 2005
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Room 4606

Highlights from Professor Bao's visit

Professor Bao is Director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,
Professor and Group Leader in the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Chief
Scientist of the National Key Project of Fundamental Research "Catalytic
basis on optimal utilization of natural gas and coal-based methane",
Principal Investigator of the BP-CAS "Clean Energy Facing the Future"
Program, Head of the Partner Group on "Nano-technology in Catalysis" between
Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG (Germany) and the Dalian Institute of Chemical
Physics (CAS), Dean of the department of Chemical Physics, University of
Science and Technology of China.

Charles T. Kresge
Global R&D Director for Research and Engineering Sciences Core Research & Development
Dow Chemical Company

Why Work In An Industrial Research Laboratory? Catalysis Looks to the Future.

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: 1001 ESB

Abstract: Contrary to some opinions, research and development is alive and well in corporate chemical laboratories. This talk will provide a personal tour to what can be done in Corporate R&D laboratories.

 

Professor Hongfei Wang
Molecular Reaction Dynamics Laboratory
Institute of Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Quantitative measurement of vibrational spectra, structure and dynamics of molecular interfaces with nonlinear spectroscopy

Date: 09/22/05
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: PSB-N 4606

Abstract: Recent development of the methodology on quantitative analysis of nonlinear spectroscopy in interface studies has revealed much more detailed understanding of the vibrational spectroscopy, structure and energetics of liquid and liquid mixture interfaces. The sum frequency generation vibrational spectra of liquid interfaces have identified novel spectroscopic features of commonly known molecule. Detailed polarization and configuration analysis have shown that the liquid interfaces are not only generally well ordered, but also generally have anti-parallel double layered structure. These progresses have shed new lights on the basic understandings of surface nonlinear spectroscopy and the nature of molecular interfaces. Here the underline principles and important examples of applications are to be presented.

 

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