Inorganic Seminar Abstracts, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 / Chemistry at Illinois

Fall 2008

Literature Seminars

"Strategies to Improve Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)"
Dennis Butcher

"Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanomeshes"
Joseph Buthker

"Developing Binuclear Metal Complexes for Catalysis"
Jessica L. Klinkenberg

"Systems of assisted hydrogen evolution from chemical hydrides."
Sherzod Madrahimov

"Gold Nanoparticles"
Lingjuan Shen

"Recent Advances in CIGS Solar Cells"
Robert Wilson

"Superatoms"
Brad Zeiger

Final Defenses

"Exploiting Ligand Oxidation State: Cyanometallate Cages with Redox- Switchable Host/Guest Chemistry and Redox-Activation of Alkenes by Platinum Complexes with Non-innocent Ligands"
Julie L. Boyer

"Palladium-Copper-Polyvinylpyrrolidone Colloids: Catalysts and Catalyst Precursors for Nitrate Reduction and Related Reactions"
Kathryn A. Guy

"Small Molecule Activation Using Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysts"
Zachariah M. Heiden

"Investigation of metal-dependence in DNAzymes and applications of DNAzymes and aptamers for diagnostics"
Debapriya Mazumdar

"Engineering Myoglobin into Both a Structural and Functional Model of Nitric Oxide Reductase"
Natasha H. Yeung

Spring 2009

"Modeling the Active States of the [NiFe]- and [FeFe]-Hydrogenases"
C. Matthew Whaley