Joseph Bennett, University of Maryland Baltimore County "Database-Driven Discovery of New Ferroics by Combining First-Principles Methods and Solid-State Inorganic Chemistry" Abstract: The design and discovery of new materials to be used as platforms for ferroic properties can be expedited by investigating already synthesized and characterized compounds whose merits may have been previously overlooked. Here we use a database-driven methods that combine searchable databases, applied […]

Herdeline Ann "Digs" Ardona, University of California, Irvine "Precision engineering of macromolecular systems as transducer biomaterials" Abstract: Signaling in physiological environments relies on ion currents, biomolecular exchange, and other physical cues that are all processed by the cellular machinery to execute a specific response. This presentation will focus on the development of macromolecular organic materials […]

Hai Yang, University of California Santa Barbara "Infrared and UV-Visible Spectroscopy of Organometallic Cations in the Gas Phase" Abstract: Cold cations of metal ion-acetylene and metal ion-benzene complexes are produced in a pulsed supersonic molecular beam by laser vaporization.  These ions are mass-selected and studied with infrared and UV-visible laser photodissociation spectroscopy.  Infrared spectra are compared to the predictions of theory to elucidate the structures of […]

Henry S. La Pierre, Georgia Institute of Technology "Rewriting the Periodic Properties of the f-Elements" Abstract: The advent of the nuclear age transformed our society. However, fundamental chemical control of the bonding, reactivity, and electronic properties of the f-elements (the lanthanides and actinides) – the elements that drove this initial technological revolution – is still developing. As a result, fulfilling the promise of the […]