Chemistry Highlights
New Faculty Member Contributes Novel Catalytic Research
Michael Neidig is the newest member of the chemistry faculty at the University of Rochester. Originally from rural Central Pennsylvania where he grew up on a dairy farm, Michael completed his Ph.D. with Ed Solomon at Stanford using physical-inorganic spectroscopic methods to understand transition metal catalytic systems in biological systems, focusing on mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes. Desiring to study more applied transition metal catalysis, he moved to Dow Chemical after receiving his Ph.D. and focused on catalyst development research for large scale, practical implementation of both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Motivated to return to a more independent research career in academics, in 2009 he moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow where he worked on non-precious metal fuel cell catalysis and precious metal nanoclusters. Michael joined the chemistry department at Rochester in 2011 and brings new expertise to our inorganic subdivision in the area of physical-inorganic chemistry in catalysis. After several months of lab renovations and instrumentation construction, the Neidig group is off and running with a group of three first year graduate students and a visiting graduate student. (more)
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Frontiers in Materials Science for the 21st Century
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Gradient-Index Optics and Concentrating Photovoltaics
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May 21, 2012 • 10:50 AM
Prediction and Design of Materials from Crystal Structures to Nanocrystal Morphology and Assembly
Professor Richard Hennig
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New Polymer Membranes for Redox Flow Batteries and Fuel Cells
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May 25, 2012 • 9:30 AM
Stabilized Anti-aromatic Cations? Making a Case for Hyperaromaticity
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June 1, 2012 • 9:30 AM
Electrophilicly-driven Annulations of Polarized Nazarov Precursors with Tricationic Iridium(III) and Heterogeneous Gold Catalysts
Tulaza Vaidya
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