/chemistry/taxonomy/term/321/all en /chemistry/channels/event/chemical-society-seminar-dr-kevin-r-wilson-interfacial-chemistry-organic-aerosols-and-cloud-droplets-264318 <p>Developing accurate descriptions of the role that interfacial chemistry plays in the multiphase oxidation of organic aerosol and cloud droplet nucleation remains an outstanding challenge.</p> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:50:36 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 950 at /chemistry /chemistry/channels/event/ccvc-seminar-dr-tomislav-rovis-controlling-catalysis-visible-light-265098 <p>Visible light is an abundant energy source that can also be delivered on demand.</p> Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:59:19 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 979 at /chemistry /chemistry/channels/event/chemical-society-seminar-dr-frederic-georges-fontaine-ligand-design-organometallic-chemistry-taken-264320 <p>Ligand design has been playing a very important role in the optimization of transition-metal catalyzed processes.</p> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:00:30 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 951 at /chemistry /chemistry/channels/event/chemsoc-seminar-dr-amy-blum-self-assembled-plasmonic-nanostructures-264105 <p>Metamaterials describe a class of materials in which material properties arise from the interaction of electromagnetic waves with the sub-wavelength sized component structures that constitute them.</p> Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:29:44 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 938 at /chemistry /chemistry/channels/event/chemical-society-seminar-dr-jean-philip-lumb-driving-synthesis-oxidation-263725 <p>Even though oxidation reactions are required for the synthesis of almost any functional molecule and material, they remain a class of reaction that suffers from poor atom- and step-efficiency, and challenges of selectivity.</p> Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:30:37 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 935 at /chemistry /chemistry/channels/event/chemical-society-seminar-dr-stephen-j-loeb-organizing-mechanically-interlocked-molecules-function-262204 <p>Artificial molecular switches and machines based on the relative motion of the components of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) are most often devices that operate in solution where they are randomly dispersed and their motion incoherent.</p> Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:07:15 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 923 at /chemistry /chemistry/channels/event/chemical-society-seminar-dr-michael-ward-stopping-crystal-growth-its-tracks-pathways-therapies-261829 <p>The crystal growth of conventional materials like silicon has been refined for decades and has led to textbook crystal growth models.</p> Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:10:29 +0000 audrey.moores@mcgill.ca 909 at /chemistry