] > Seminar Series, UW-Madison Engineering, CBE 2008 Spring Tuesday January 29 1610 Engineering Hall Michael Filler http://directory.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi?searchtext=Michael%20Filler California Institute of Technology http://www.caltech.edu/ Silicon Nanowire and Microwire Photovoltaic Devices 2008 Spring Tuesday February 19 1610 Engineering Hall Carsten Sievers http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/jones/Members/Sievers/Sievers.php Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.gatech.edu/ Lanthanum Exchanged Zeolites as Refining Catalyst 2008 Spring Tuesday February 26 1610 Engineering Hall Flemming Besenbacher Director and Founder http://www.inano.dk/sw267.asp Flemming Besenbacher is a full professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Aarhus, where he received his D.Sc. His research activities include the development and use of scanning tunneling microscopy and other surface sensitive techniques to study clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces, as well as synthesis and characterization of nanostructures on surfaces. He is director and founder of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and head of the graduate school, a member of the Boards of Directors of the Carlsberg Foundation and Carlsberg Breweries A/S. He was vice-director of the Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics (1993-2003) sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation. His many awards include the NKT Prize (1995) from the Danish Physical Society for outstanding research in the area of scanning probe microscopy, the Danish Velux Award for outstanding achievements in natural and technical science, especially in the area of nanoscience, and the Grundfos Award (2006). In 2007, he was knighted by the Queen of Denmark and awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog. Also in 2007 he was awarded honorary professorships at four Chinese Universities: Henan, Tianjin, Jilin, and Huazhong Normal. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy, the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, and other prestigious Danish and international academies and societies. His more than 300 papers in international journals, including several in high impact journals such as <emgt;Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters,>/em< and <em>Angewandte Chemie<em>, are highly cited. University of Aarhus http://www.inano.dk/sw174.asp 2007-2008 BSL Presentation: Catalytic Model Systems and Surface Reactivity Studied at the Atomic Scale by High-resolution, Fast-scanning STM http://www.engr.wisc.edu/che/bsl2007-2008.html <p>For decades, single-crystal surfaces have been studied under ultrahigh vacuum conditions as model systems for elementary surface processes underlying phenomena such as heterogeneous catalysis, epitaxial growth, and corrosion. This “surface science approach” has contributed substantially to our understanding of the processes involved in catalysis, and has in some cases led to the design of improved catalysts. Recently, much attention has been paid to the so-called gaps between surface science and industrial catalysis: the pressure gap which arises because of the pressure difference between UHV base pressures and atmospheric pressure; and the structural gap relating to the difference in reactivity on single-crystal surfaces, as opposed to nanoclusters.</p><In this talk I will show how one can use the unique capabilities of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to reveal fundamental processes in relation to catalysis. STM has proven to be a fascinating and powerful technique for revealing the atomic-scale realm of matter. The unique Aarhus STM allows us to record time-resolved, high-resolution STM images, visualized in the form of STM movies (see <a href="http://www.phys.au.dk/spm/">www.phys.au.dk/spm</a>). I will show how we can obtain quantitative information on and unique insight into diffusion and transport phenomena associated with surface processes and nanostructures, and how atomic-scale studies may lead to design of improved catalysts.> 2008 Spring Tuesday March 4 1610 Engineering Hall Bradley D. Olsen http://www.its.caltech.edu/~bi/ California Institute of Technology http://www.caltech.edu/ The Effect of Chain Rigidity on the Self-Assembly of Functional Block Copolymers 2008 Spring Thursday March 6 1610 Engineering Hall Robert M. Rioux Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu/ Elucidation of Nanoscale Phenomena in Heterogeneous Catalysis using a Novel Catalyst Synthetic Method and in-situ Synchrotron x-ray Techniques: NO Oxidation on Platinum 2008 Spring Tuesday March 11 1610 Engineering Hall Abraham Stroock Assistant Professor http://web1temp.cheme.cornell.edu/peopleevents/faculty/stroock/ Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu/ Microfluidic Materials 2008 Spring Tuesday March 18 Spring break 2008 Spring Tuesday March 25 1610 Engineering Hall Sotiris Pratsinis Professor http://fm-eth.ethz.ch/eth/peoplefinder/FMPro?-db=phonebook.fp5&-format=pf%5fdetail%5fde.html&-lay=html&-op=cn&Typ=Staff&Suche%5fText=Sotiris%20Pratsinis&Suche%5fText%5fpre=Sotiris%20Pratsinis&-recid=3776366068&-find= Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich http://www.ethz.ch/ Functional Nanoparticles Made in Flames: Dynamics at High Concentrations 2008 Spring Wednesday March 26 1227 Engineering Hall. Please note room change. Ray W. Miller Business Development Director DuPont Applied BioSciences http://www2.dupont.com/DuPont_Home/en_US/ Building a Sustainable Future 2008 Spring Tuesday April 1 1610 Engineering Hall Mahmoud El-Halwagi http://www.che.tamu.edu/people/faculty/info?fid=28 Texas A&M University http://www.tamu.edu/ Componentless Design: Shifting From Mass Integration to Property Integration 2008 Spring Tuesday April 8 ACS Meeting 2008 Spring Tuesday April 15 1610 Engineering Hall Matthew DeLisa Assistant Professor http://www.cheme.cornell.edu/cheme/people/profile/index.cfm?netid=md255 Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu/ Engineering Superproteins using Nature’s Biological Machinery 2008 Spring Tuesday April 22 1610 Engineering Hall Nick Sahinidis John E. Swearingen Professor of Chemical Engineering http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/people/faculty/ns1b.htm Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Optimization in the New Biology 2008 Spring Tuesday April 29 1800 Engineering Hall. Please note room change. Lars C. Grabow and Ying Zhu http://manos.engr.wisc.edu/Lars_CV.pdf University of Wisconsin http://manos.engr.wisc.edu/ From CO2 to Methanol: An ab-initio Investigation of the Underlying Mechanism (Grabow) and Quantitative Flow-Enhanced Virus Infection Assays (Zhu)