Upcoming program approved nano-related seminars

Apr 3

BME Distinguished Seminar Series with Steven Chu: What can be learned by tracking the motion of cargos due to dynein in live cells with millisecond and microsecond time resolution and sub-nanometer spatial resolution

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Wilkinson Room 021

Professor Steven Chu, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University, the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate in laser cooling and trapping of atoms and former U.S. Secretary of Energy

Apr 11

2025 Hill Lecture: A Golden Time for Nanotechnology

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FFSC 2231

Prof. Catherine Murphy, Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne

Apr 16

DMI/MEMS Seminar: AI/ML in Additive Manufacturing and Polymer Synthesis for New Data and Discovery

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Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

Prof Rigoberto Advincula, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, UT-ORNL Governor's Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials

Past Seminars

2023

Nov 8

Opto-electronic and Excited-State Dynamical Properties of Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Superstructures

Prof. Michael J. Therien, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Duke University

Oct 31

Towards Nanoscale Devices Self-Assembled with DNA

Grigory Tikhomirov, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Oct 25

The Carbon Scaffold: Building Next Generation Sensors and Electronics on Quasi-freestanding Epitaxial Graphene

Kevin Daniels, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics, Maryland University

Oct 25

Molecular-Scale Electronics and Moore: From Interfacial Reactivity to Band Structure Design

Prof. Michael Inkpen, University of Southern California

Oct 19

New precursor chemistries pave the way to unearth 2D type materials

Prof Anjana Devi, Ruhr-University Bochum

Oct 10

May the Force Be with You: Insights from Measuring Electrostatic Forces by AFM

Peter Grutter, Chair of the Department of Physics at McGill University

Sep 29

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Novel Ligands for Nanoparticles and Nanoclusters. Applications in Catalysis, Sensing and Molecular Medicine

Professor Cathleen Crudden, Queen’s University

Sep 27

DMI/MEMS Seminar

Prof. Viktor A. Podolskiy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Sep 18

Mixed-dimensional heterostructures for electronic and energy technologies

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

Aug 24

DMI Seminar Presented by Prof. Andreas Fery on Metallic Nanoparticles

Prof. Andreas Fery, Professor for Physical Chemistry of Polymeric Materials at the Technical University Dresden and Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics at the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden