Fall 2009
Literature Seminars
"Diverse reactivity from a few simple ligands: the case of non-heme iron dioxygenases and their biomimetics analogs"
--Jon Askim
"Functionalization of Self-Assembled DNA Origami"
--Darius Z. Brown
"Low Coordinate Iron Complexes for Modeling FeMo Nitrogenase"
--Maria Carroll
"Dihydrogen Activation with "Frustrated" Lewis Acid-Base Pairs"
--Luke Davis
"Monoalkoxidepyrrolide Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis"
--Patrick S. Hanley
"Palladium Triphosphine Catalysts for CO2 Reduction"
--Kathleen Kelley
"Advances in Nanoporous Gold Synthesis"
--John W. Overcash
"The Discovery of New Oxidation States: The Chemistry of Magnesium(I) and Zinc(I)"
--Jennifer Steele
"Rational Design of Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks"
--Hang Xing
Final Defenses
Fabrication Techniques for Unusual Electronic Systems: Silicon Microstructures for Photovoltaic Modules
--Alfred Baca
Design Synthesis and Applications of Complementary Quadruply Hydrogen Bonding Modules
a. Redox responsive naphthyridine module and application in polymers
b. Probing the polyermic environmental effect on the complexation of strong hydrogen bonding species
--J. Kwansima Quansah
Modifications of Planar and Nanostructured Surfaces for the Interrogation of new Sensor Designs
--Lucas Thompson
Soft Lithography - Materials and Applications to Plasmonic Sensing and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
--Tu Truong
Spring 2010
Final Defense
Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for the Detection of Aqueous and Gaseous Analytes
--Christopher Musto
Design and Applications of 4-yl-(methyl)coumarins and Their Derivatives
--Joshua Ritchey
Conjugated Carbon Monolayer Membranes - Synthesis and Integration Techniques
--Sakulsuk Unarunotai
Bioanalytical Applications of Microfluidic Devices: From Patterning to Genotyping
--Huaibin Zhang