Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Periodic TableTalks Schedule

The schedule for the Periodic TableTalks for the fall 2021, spring 2022 is:

9/15/2021               Sustainable Energy and the Environment

• Sarah Thoi (Johns Hopkins U)

‘Harnessing the Power of Molecular Chemistry for Sustainable Electrochemical Storage’

• Amy Prieto (Colorado State U)

‘Electrodeposition as a tool for developing sustainable battery manufacturing’

10/20/2021             Organometallic Chemistry

• Tianning Diao (New York U)

‘Mechanism of Nickel-mediated Radical Pathways’

• Liviu Mirica (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

‘The organometallic chemistry of paramagnetic Ni and Pd complexes’

11/17/2021              Solid State Chemistry

• Julia Zaikina (Iowa State U)

‘How to discover new solids containing alkali metals: predictive screening, facile synthesis and in situ studies’

• Julia Chan (UT Dallas)

“Getting Your Lattice in Shape –  An Exercise in Crystal Growth of Intermetallics’

1/19/2022               Coordination Chemistry

• Neil Tomson (U Penn)

‘Ligand Flexibility in Surface-Inspired Cluster Chemistry’

• Suzanne Bart (Purdue U)

‘Teaching f-Elements New Tricks: Synthetic Chemistry at the Bottom of the Periodic Table’

2/16/2022               Bioinorganic Chemistry

• Jonathan Rittle (UC Berkeley)

‘In Crystallo O2 Activation at Molecular Iron Sites’

• Rachel Austin (Barnard University)

‘Exploring the structure and function of alkane monooxygenase (AlkB): A key metalloenzyme in the carbon cycle’

3/9/2022                 Nanoscience

• Alexandra Velian (U Washington)

‘Atomically precise nanoclusters with an edge: Molecular insights into single atom catalysts’

• Delia Milliron (UT Austin)

‘Plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals’