Lectures & Seminars:

Distinguished Lectures in Nanotechnology - for advanced energy materials and catalysts.

This lecture series, inaugurated at Tufts University in 2004, is co-sponsored by the NSF-Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. The NIRT director and organizer of the lecture series is Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos. The aim of the lecture series, which is a key feature of the outreach activities of the NIRT grant, is to bring to campus leaders in materials science and catalysis at the nanoscale to present advances in the field, describe cutting-edge technologies, and share their perspectives for the transfer and application of these new materials and methods to the production of clean and affordable energy.

The lectures are announced to academic institutions and energy-focused companies in the New England states and are open to the public.

2005-2006 Lectures

• Prof. Dr. Gary Haller, Yale University
  Department of Chemical Engineering
  "Toward the Design of a Diameter Selective Catalyst for Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Synthesis"
• Prof. Jingguang Chen,University of Delaware
  Department of Chemical Engineering
  "Rational Design of Alternative Electrocatalysts for PEM Fuel Cells"
• Prof. Cynthia Friend, Harvard University
  Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  "Synthesis and Reactivity of Nanostructures Supported on Au(111)"
• Prof. Steven Suib, University of Connecticut
  Department of Chemistry
  "Self Assembly, Molecular Design, and Applications of Porous Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials"

2004-2005 Lectures

• Prof. Bruce Gates, University of California at Davis
  Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  "Supported Molecular - and Nano-scale Catalysts: Metal Complexes and Clusters on Oxides and Zeolites"
• Prof. Christos Flytzanis, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain
  Department of Physics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
  "Photonics in Nanoscale Structures: The Impact of Electron and Photon Confinement"
• Prof. James Dumesic, University of Wisconsin
  Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
  "Oxidation of CO by Aqueous Polyoxometalates over Catalysts Containing Gold Nanotubes and Nanoparticles: Implications for Preferential Oxidation Reactions and for Powering Fuel Cells"
• Prof. Gabor Somorjai, University of California at Berkeley
  Department of Chemistry
  "The Nanoscience of Heterogeneous Catalysis"
• Prof. Francis DiSalvo, Director, Cornell Center for Materials Research
  Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University
  "Challenges and Opportunities in Nanoscience: Ordered Intermetallic Catalysts for Fuel Cell Applications"