Special Seminar: Dr Michael Pfrunder. “Applying principles of supramolecular chemistry to manipulate the magnetic, optical and catalytic properties of metal coordination complexes”

Wednesday, 29 January 2020 – 11:00 am in LT4, Level 2, School of Chemistry [Map].  (Special seminar) Dr Michael Pfrunder , School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology [mc.pfrunder@qut.edu.au]   Host:  Dr Derrick Roberts Abstract: Metal complexes exhibit many interesting optical, magnetic and redox properties that are of great importance to myriad applications. …

Postgraduate Seminar: Ahmed Owais – Driving forces for wetting and adsorption on functional surfaces

Speaker: Mr Ahmed Owais Mohamed Ahmed, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney (Refreshments to follow this seminar) Host: A/Prof Chiara Neto [Map] Abstract: Functional surfaces coated with nano-thin films have potential applications in many areas. In this Thesis, the processes of liquid spreading and adsorption onto surfaces were studied as a function of surface properties, such …

School seminar: Dr Michael Grunweld – Crystallization and spontaneous resolution of chiral molecules

Speaker:  Dr Michael Grunweld, Department of Chemistry, The University of Utah, USA   Host:   Dr Asaph Widmer-Cooper   [Map] Abstract: Predicting the crystallization behavior of solutions of chiral molecules is a major challenge in the chemical sciences. In this talk, I will describe our recent theoretical efforts to understand chiral crystallization with the help of a family of coarse-grained …