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