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
"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