Fall 2002
Literature Seminars
From Structure to Function: One Hundred Years of Inadvertent Fe-only Hydrogenase Modeling
Joshua D. Lawrence
Tyrosinase: Recent Studies of Structure and Mechanism
Christine Dickerson
Crystal Growth of Semiconductors in Microgravity
Rachel A. Taylor
The Chemistry of Single Layer 157 nm Photoresists
Charles W. Spicer
Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Alkanes Using Pincer Ligand Complexes
Steve Smith
Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis to Functionalization
Kathryn Guy
Optimal Emission from Silicon
Nicholas M. Ndiege
The Synthesis and MALDI-MS Characterization of New Ruthenium Sulfide Clusters
Amanda L. Eckermann
Controlling the Motion of Molecules; Prototypes for Molecular Machines
Wontae Noh
Excursions Beyond the Zintl Border: Anionic Clusters of the Heavier Group 13 Metals
Philip C. Allen
Molecular Machines: Rotors and Shuttles
Chen Zhang
Transfer Hydrogenation: Emergence of the Metal-Ligand Bifunctional Mechanism
Cameron W. Spahn
Flourous Biphasic Catalysis
David J. Flannigan
New Insights into Dinitrogen Activation and Fixation
Ming Fang
Small Molecule Analogues of the Fe-only Hydrogenase Active Site
Joshua D. Lawrence
Spring 2003
Literature Seminars
Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Thin Films with Novel Molecular Recognition Properties
Mariusz Twardowski
Environmental Applications of Ultrasound
James Dean Oxley
Tetrathiometallates in Synthesis and Catalysis
Daniel Eugene Schwarz
Characterization of a Keggin Polyoxometalate on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces
Craig Matthew Teague
In Vitro Selection and Characterization of Transition Metal-Dependent DNAzymes and RNAzymes
Peter John Bruesehoff
Final Defense
Designing Novel Blue Copper and Purple Cu Centers Into Azurin with Natural and Unnatural Amino Acids
Steven M. Berry