Events Archive
Seminar
Monday, May 8, 2023 - 10:45am
"Supercapacitive Swing Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide: Scaling using Bipolar Electrode Stacks and Implications for Direct Air Capture"
Supercapacitive Swing Adsorption (SSA) developed by our group is an electrostatic carbon capture technique,...
Seminar
Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 10:45am
"TGF-β Signaling Pathway Inhibition to Enhance CAR T Cell Antitumor Efficacy"
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is an immunotherapy that involves genetically engineering T cells with CAR proteins as a method to kill cancerous cells...
Seminar
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 10:45am
"Materials Design for Singlet Fission and CO2 Activation"
Organic materials offer a rich palate to be decorated with functional units in order to tune various properties. This talk will focus on two areas: optoelectronic materials and materials...
Seminar
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 10:45am
"Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry: A tool for visualizing subcellular structures and molecules"
Bioorthogonal click chemistry, the subject of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022,1 is a powerful chemical strategy for selective labeling and...
Seminar
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 10:45am
"Photoactivation Platforms Enabling Catalysis and NMR Hyperpolarization"
Transition metal-based photosensitizers are of significant value for promoting numerous light-activated processes and chemical transformations relying on excited state...
Seminar
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10:45am
"Selective Display of Immuno-engagers on Tumor Cells via the pH-low Insertion Peptide"
The tendency of cancer therapies to be highly toxic and lack targeting features emphasizes the need for tumor-directed delivery strategies. The lack of...
Seminar
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 10:45am
"What did the metals know, and when did they know it? Tabletop M-edge XANES reveals femtosecond dynamics in transition metal complexes"
X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES) is a powerful technique for electronic structure...
Seminar
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 10:45am
"Building Better Biomaterials: Using DNA to explore new material properties"
Materials found in nature have a variety of properties and functions that have yet to be recapitulated in modern synthetic materials. Using semisynthetic and...
Seminar
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 10:45am
"Mechanistic Modelling of Electrochemical Processes on Gold using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy"
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is one of the most powerful techniques in electrochemistry. It is a nondestructive method that can...
Seminar
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 10:45am
"Anti-Cancer Effects of Targeting Telomeric DNA and the Telomerase Enzyme"
One of the defining hallmarks of cancer is replicative immortality as a result of telomerase activity.1 As cells in healthy tissue replicate, they experience gradual...