Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors and Soft Robotics

Prof. Nivine Khashab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 14 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis planning, mechanistic analysis and discovery of new reaction classes in the age of computers

Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski, UNIST, Republic of Korea.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Julio Lloret

Prof. Julio Lloret, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels

Dr. John Griffin, Lancaster University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials to address sustainability challenges

Prof. Camille Petit,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Control: Strategic Uses of Carbon Nanohoops, Fluorinated Cyclohexanes and Organophosphates

Prof. Max von Delius, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ulm University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Calibrate Weak Intermolecular Ligand Interactions on Nanoparticles via the Dynamic Volume of Chain Segments

Prof. Xueqian Kong, Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Lecture 2023: “Topometric Design of Self-Assembled Biomimetic Composites”

Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular design approaches to organic semiconductors

Prof. Iain McCulloch, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

From theoretical chemistry to integrated drug discover platforms. Methods and applications

Prof. Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The shape of things to come

Professor Nicola Marzari, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Machine-learning-enabled discovery of extreme chemistry

Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 17 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Weakly Bound Molecular Materials: Competing Energy Scales, Quantum Effects and More

Dr Mariana Rossi, MPI.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

New developments in electrosynthesis and redox catalysis

Prof. Song Lin, Cornell University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry

Professor Jamie Neilson, Colorado State University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML

Professor Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

Professor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Selective Functionalization of Pyridines, Diazines and Pharmaceuticals via Unconventional Intermediates" and "Synthesis in Drug Discovery"

Pharmaron-Sponsored Lecture

Prof. Andy McNally, Colorado State University and Dr. Ben Rahemtulla, Pharmaron.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photosynthesis on an electrode

Dr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Discovering New Materials By Combining Computation And Intelligent Mobile Robotic Chemists

Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

T-Shaped Transition Metal Complexes and their Metalloradical Nature

Prof. Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Mechanistic design, understanding, and multicatalysis in the development of catalytic chemical processes

Dr Pawel Dydio, University of Strasbourg.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Iron catalysed cyclotrimerisation: Reactions of alkynes and phosphaalkynes

Dr Ruth Webster, University of Bath.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 09 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Simplified Earth-abundant metal catalysis, C–H activation and transborylation

Dr Jamie Docherty, The University of Manchester.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic control of peptide and protein architectures

Professor Yu Heng Lau, The University of Sydney.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Electrophilic Amination Strategies for N-Heterocycle Synthesis

Prof. John Bower, University of Liverpool.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 02 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The importance of fundamental hydrocarbons and their use in step economic total synthesis

Dr Madison Sowden, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (formerly at Australian National University, Canberra).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The unusual reactivity inside the supramolecular resorcinarene capsule catalyst – from terpene cyclizations to glycosylations

Prof. Konrad Teifenbacher, University of Basel.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Molecular simulations of crystallization of halide perovskites

Paramvir Ahlawat, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Small-molecule binding to intrinsically disordered proteins

Dr Gabi Heller, Newnham College, Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:00-14:30

Chemical Society Talks

Controlling selectivity in chemical catalysis using non-covalent interactions

Dr. Robert J. Phipps (University of Cambridge).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:10-19:30

Chemical Society Talks

Magnetic low temperature cooling

Sian Dutton (University of Cambridge).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 27 October 2022, 18:10-19:30

Chemical Society Talks

Magnetic low temperature cooling

Sian Dutton (University of Cambridge).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 27 October 2022, 18:10-19:30