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Gorman Group Meeting Schedule
Spring-Summer 2009

Meetings will be held at 2:00 in Partners III Room 302 unless noted otherwise

Date Speaker Topic
15 May CG: Electron Transport in Single Molecules Lebo scrambles to finish two manuscripts and begs to be let off of group meeting. CG Reluctantly agrees
22 May Bill Behof Literature: What makes this a JACS paper
29 May Eric Tucker & Yun-Ho Kim Literature: How does the head group of a SAM affect the electronic coupling between it and the substrate?
05 Jun Anil Sharma & Jenelle Willett Literature: Deriving electronic structure from optical absorption spectroscopy and electrochemistry
12 Jun No Meeting CG Out of Town
19 Jun No Meeting Meeting Cancelled
26 Jun Lebo Xu & Xinfang Hu Literature: Recent developments in the synthesis of polymer brushes on surfaces and particles
03 Jun Eric Tucker & Yun-Ho Kim Follow-Up: (1) How did Weiss draw that figure? What assumptions and data were used? (2) Thiols vs. isonitriles as binding groups
10 Jul Everybody Email CG 2-3 slides that summarize a paper on direct writing

Prior Meetings

Date Speaker Topic
16 Jan Cancelled Bill and Molly are at the Solar Energy Research Conference
23 Jan Bill Behof Oligomers, Polymers, Cyclization
30 Jan James Williams Chapter 6. Replacement of Thiol and Isonitrile Ferrocene moieties into Isonitrile and thiol monolayers
06 Feb Matthew Lewis Chapter III. Negative Differential Resistance (NDR)
13 Feb Eric Tucker Terminal Alkynes as an Ink or Background SAM in Replacement Lithography
20 Feb Anil Sharma I. Dendritically Encapsulated, Water Soluble Fe4S4: Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties
II. Progress on the synthesis of o-amido dendron thiols
27 Feb Yun-Ho Kim Progress on: Investigation of preformed vinyl carbenes as head groups for monolayers on gold
06 Mar Lebo Xu Recent results on: Preparation of gradient poly (lactic acid) polymer brushes
13 Mar Molly Brannock The pKa of cyanobenzyl arenes and how it relates to palladium-catalyzed couplings
20 Mar Undergraduates (Jodie, Eugene, Declan, Bryan) Mini-talks: What I'm doing and why I'm doing it.
27 Mar Jenelle Willett My first results -- In Cox 400
03 Apr Xinfang Hu My first results -- In Cox 400
10 Apr No Meeting CG Out of Town
17 Apr Bill Behof & Molly Brannock Literature: Factors affecting palladium-mediated couplings -- what's the rate determining step?
24 Apr Nano-Days 2-5 PM Students will give short presentations/demonstrations
01 May Molly Brannock & Bill Behof (1) Four mechanistic studies on palladium-mediated couplings
08 May No Meeting Triangle Soft Matter Workshop