Seminars

Fall 2024

September 16, 2024 - Prof. Benjamin Lienhard, Princeton University

• Interfacing with Quantum Information Processors - From Readout to Control

September 23, 2024 - Dr. Michael Williams, Bristol Myers Squibb

• Better Techniques for Chemical Exploration: Using HTE to advance the Chemists Toolbox

October 21, 2024 - Dr. Jose Rodriguez, Brookhaven National Labs

• Fundamental Studies on Novel Metal-Oxide Interfaces for the Efficient Conversion of CO2 to Methanol and Ethanol

October 28, 2024 - Prof. George John, The City College of New York

• Molecules to Materials - Biomass as A Platform for Molecular Design

November 4, 2024 - Prof. Matthew C. Weisenberger, University of Kentucky

• Carbon Fiber: Past, Present and Future

November 25, 2024 - Dean Lahana, Stanford University

• o-nitrophenol and the Dark Side of Computational Photochemistry

December 2, 2024 - Prof. Arsalan Mirjafari, SUNY Oswego

• (Dis)solving the World's Problems with Ionic Liquids

December 9, 2024 - Abdellah Lifsi, Morgan State University

• TBA

Spring 2023

February 6, 2023 - Prof. Rui Ribeiro, University of Porto

• Carbon-based membranes: An alternative to the application of conventional powder catalysts in water treatment

February 21, 2023 - Prof. Teresa Bandosz, The City College of New York

• Beyond Adsorption and Because of Adsorption : Exploring the silent aspect of carbon porosity

February 27, 2023 - Prof. Matthew Doty, University of Delaware

• Material Foundation for Scalable Quantum Photonic Technologies

March 20, 2023 - Prof. Mariusa Barczak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University

• Classic and new adsorbents for environmental remediation

March 27, 2023 - Prof. Leonard (Len) Mueller, UC Riverside

• NMR Crystallography: An Atomic-Resolition Probe of Structure, Function, and Mechanism for Materials Science and Structural Biology

April 3, 2023 - Prof. Kim Lewis, Howard University

• Probing Electron Transport in Nanoscale Junctions

April 17, 2023 - Prof. Marvin Parasram, New York University

• Anaerobic Oxygen Atom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited Nitroarenes

April 24, 2023 - Prof. Michael Inkpen, USC

• Charge Transport and Self-Assembly at the Single-Molecule Limit

May 1, 2023 - Prof. Wanlu Li, St. Peter's University

• Metal-free carbons as antibacterial materials: exploring their combined effects of surface chemistry and porosity

May 8, 2023 - Prof. Gabriele Grosso, Photonics, CUNY ASRC

• Quantum optoelectronics with two-dimensional materials

Fall 2023

September 11, 2023 - Prof. Virinder S. Parmar, University of Delhi

• Synthesis and Applications of some Novel Polymeric Nanomaterials

October 16, 2023 - Prof. Yi Pan, The City College of New York

• Recent progress and perspectives on Sodium Ion Batteries and on recycling and recovery of spent LiFePO4

October 23, 2023 - Prof. Mohammed-Ali Miri, Queens College

• Programmable photonic integrated circuits for analog information processing

October 30, 2023 - Prof. Mateusz Marianski, Hunter College

• TBA

November 6, 2023 - Prof. Xi Ling, Boston University

• Atomic substitution approach for non-vdW 2D materials

November 13, 2023 - Prof. James Morken, Boston College

• Asymmetric Catalysis with Organoboron Reagents

November 20, 2023 - Prof. Tina Brower-Thomas, Howard University

• TBA

November 27, 2023 - Prof. Monalisa Mukherjee, Amity University

• Click chemistry tailored benzimidazole functionalized triazole block-co-polymer for emergence of exotic chimaeric nano-crystalsomes

2022

February 2, 2022 - Prof.Yohannes Abate, University of Georgia

• Probing interactions at the nanoscale

February 7, 2022 - Prof. Weiwei Xie, Rutgers University

• Chemistry perspectives to novel quantum materials

February 14, 2022 - Prof. Maya Narayanan Nair, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center

• Substrate effect on the electronic properties of graphene

March 7, 2022 - Prof. Nicolas Giovambattista, Brooklyn College - CUNY

• Water: Two Liquids, Two Glasses, and Potential Applications

March 14, 2022 Prof. Giovani Meloni, University of San Francisco

• Multiplexed synchrotron photoionization studies of combustion and atmospheric systems

March 28, 2022 - Prof. Mark Tuckermann, New York University

• Topology, molecular simulation, and machine learning as routes to prediction of structure and phase behavior in molecular and atomic crystals

April 4, 2022 - Prof. Matthew Sfeir, CUNY Advanced Science Center and Graduate Center of CUNY

• Biexcitons in Molecules

April 11, 2022 - Prof. Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware

• Biomolecules for Non-biological Things: Designed Peptide Building Blocks for Polymerization and Hierarchal Self-assembly

April 25, 2022 - Prof. Thomas Maimone, University of California, Berkeley

• Synthetic Studies and Applications of Complex Natural Products

May 2, 2022 - Prof. Kevin Brown, Indiana University

• Development of Alkene Functionalization Methods to Enable Complex Molecule Synthesis

2021

February 1, 2021 - Prof. Jin Kim Montclare, New York University

• Endowing Intelligence into Protein Biomaterials

February 8, 2021 - Prof. Leslie Schoop, Princeton University

• From Chemical Bonds to Toplogy

March 1, 2021 - Prof. Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Interfacing Nanomaterials with Biology: From CRISPR Delivery to Antimicrobials

March 8, 2021 - Prof. Jorge Navarro, University of Granada, Spain

• Metal-Organic Framework Based Materials for Capture and Degradation of Toxic Gases

March 15, 2021 - Prof. Maria Tzortziou, City College of New York

• A view from space - Biogeochemical exchanges and ecological processes in vulnerable coastal ecosystems

March 22, 2021 - Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee, Texas A&M University

• Designing Electrode Architectures across Length Scales: Some Lessons Learned from Li-ion and "Beyond Li" Chemistries

April 12, 2021 - Prof. Teddy Asefa, Rutgers University

• Multifunctional Nanomaterials: From Synthesis to their Properties and Potential Applications

April 26, 2021 - Prof. Mary Watson, University of Delaware

• Cross-Couplings of Alkyl Amine and Alcohol Derivatives

May 3, 2021 - Prof. Camille Petit, Imperial College London

• Porous Boron Nitride: The Good, The Bad and The Unknown

May 10, 2021 - Prof. Juan Carlos Colmenares, Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Physical Chemistry

• Merging Sonication with Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: Environmental and Energy Applications

2020

June 23, 2020 - Prof. Carlos Cabrera, Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

• Center for Innovation, Research and Education in Environmental Nanotechnology (CIREN)

July 2, 2020 - Dr. Alex Couzis, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean of the Grove School of Engineering

• Collodial Slurry Processing for Battery Manufacturing

2019

November 1, 2019 - Dr. Yahira Meija, Program Coordinator of H-AGEP at CCNY

• Career Development Opportunities in H-AGEP: Training for Faculty Positions

October 23, 2019 - Prof. Arjun G. Yodh, University of Pennsylvania

• Transformation and Relaxation of Soft Materials

October 21, 2019 - Prof. Barry P. Rand, Princeton University

• Devices emerging from controlling organic and metal halide perovskite energetics and morphology

May 6, 2019 - Prof. Stephanie Law, University of Delaware

• Growth and Optical Properties of Complex Materials

April 15, 2019 - Dr. Kaushini Wickramasinghe, New York University Center for Quantum Phenomena, USA

• InAs surface 2DEGs and superconducting proximity effect in Al-InAs heterostructures

April 8, 2019 - Prof. Donna McGregor, Lehman College, USA

• A Structured, Flipped and Active Learning Classroom for General Chemistry: Design, implementation and evidence for success

March 12, 2019 - Dr. Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University, USA

• Optics and plasmonics of Weyl semimetals

March 11, 2019 - Dr. Luis M. Campos, Columbia University, USA

• Materials Design for 3rd-Generation Solar Cells

2018

December 3, 2018 - Prof. Madeline Torres-Lugo, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, USA

• Therapeutic Nanoparticles: Fantasy or Reality? Engineering solutions and the road ahead

October 9, 2018 - Dr. Stefan Hildebrandt, Editor-In-Chief Advanced Quantum Technologies, Annalen der Physik, Solar RRL and the physica status solidi family, Germany

• Physica Status Solidi and other Wiley Physics and Materials Journals

October 4, 2018 - Dr. Niels Holten-Andersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St. Louis

• Supramolecular Materials Mini Symposium

September 20, 2018 - Dr. George Crabtree, Joint Center for Energy Storage (JCESR) at Argonne National Laboratory & University of Illinois-Chicago, USA

• Where is Energy Storage Going?

September 13, 2018 - Dr. Luis Echegoyen, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

• Buckyball Maracas: New Endohedral Fullerene Structures, Reactivity and Mechanistic Aspects

August 13, 2018 - Prof. Horacio Pastawski, Universidad nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

• Information Scrambling, Quantum Chaos, and Intrinsic Decoherence in Many Spin Systems: A New Experimental Approach Through the Loschmidt Echo

July 13, 2018 - Dr. Christophe Testelin, Institut de Nanoscience de Paris, Sorbonne Universite, CNRS, Paris, France:

• Spectroscopy of 0D and 2D Excitons in Colloidal Halide Oerovskite Nanostructures

July 9, 2018 - Dr. Maria Maragkou, Senior Editor Nature Materials:

• Inside Nature Materials

February 8, 2018 Dr. Erich D Jarvis, Rockefeller University, USA:

• Insights from Nonhuman Animals into the Neurobiology of Human Language

January 31, 2018 - Dr. Eilaf Egap, Rice University, USA:

• Molecular and Nanostructure Engineering of Semiconducting Polymers for Information, Energy and Health Technologies

2017

November 20, 2017 Dr. Peter J. Delfyett, University of Central Florida, USA:

• Ultrafast Coherent Optical Signal Processing using Stabilized Optical Frequency Combs from Mode-locked Semiconductor Diode Lasers

November 13, 2017 Dr. Gottfried Strasser, Institute of Solid State Electronics, Austria:

• Monolithic Integration of QC (Quantum Cascade) Lasers and Detectors to QC Systems

November 7, 2017 Prof. Kyungwha Park, Virginia Tech, USA:

• Effects of Strain and Ferromagnetic Metallic Substrate on Topological Dirac Surface states in Bi2Se3 Films

July 12, 2017 Dr. Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, France:

• Ultrafast study of out-of-equilibrium quantum materials

March 23, 2017 Dr.Chris Palmstrm, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA:

• Growth and Electronic Properties of Heusler Epitaxial Thin Films

January 27, 2017 Dr. Jennifer E. Hastie, University of Strathclyde, Scotland:

• Narrow linewidth semiconductor disk lasers for quantum technologies

2016

December 12, 2016 Dr. Maryam Abazari, General Electric Research Laboratory, USA:

• Materials physics of environmentally friendly complex oxides

November 28, 2016 Dr. Thomas Myers, Texas State University, USA:

• New Doping Approaches for CdTe Use in Photovoltaic Devices

November 7, 2016 Dr. Mihaela Jitianu, William Paterson University, USA:

• Layered double hydroxides crossing into composite materials synthesis and photocatalysis

October 18, 2016 Dr. David K. Smith, University of York, England:

• Hard Facts About Soft Matter: Self-Assembled Multi-Component Gels for High-Tech Applications

September 26, 2016 Dr. Katayun Barmak, Columbia University, USA:

• Grain Boundary and Surface Scattering of Electrons in Metals for Deeply-Scaled Interconnects