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2024-25

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Jonas C. Peters
California Institute of Technology

Fe-mediated N2-fixation and lessons for Mo: Bridging catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Franc Meyer
University of Gottengen, Germany

Inspired by Nitrogenase: Dihydride Complexes for the H2 Releasing Reductive Activation of Challenging Substrates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023-24

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Allan Dean Sherry
University of Texas-Dallas

Next Generation MR Contract Agent Designs for Imaging Physiology & Metabolism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022-2023

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Leif Hammarstrom
University of Uppsala

Molecular Mechanisms of Artificial Photosynthesis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christy Landes
Rice University

Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces

Stephan Link
Rice University

Insights from single particle spectroscopy of plasmonic nanostructures

2021-2022

Phil Power
UC Davis

2018-2019

 

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Joan Broderick
Montana State University

Organometallic Chemistry in Radical SAM Enzymes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017-2018

 

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Wenbin Lin
University of Chicago

Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Cancer Therapy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016-2017

 

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George Christou
University of Florida

Magnetic Molecules and Single-Molecule Magnets:
A "Bottom-up" Molecular Approach to Nanoscale Magnetism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015-2016

 

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Jim Mayer
Yale University 

Explorations in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer, from Hydrogen Atom Transfer to Electrocatalysis to Oxide Nanoparticles