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MSE-Colloquium@NTU
Purpose
MSE-Colloquium@NTU is a forum where distinguished scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and publishing editors are invited to give presentations to MSE staff and students.
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Past Seminars in 2024 / 2023
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| 12 Jul 2024 | Prof Mohamed Eddaoudi | Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Prospect Adsorbents and Membranes for Energy-intensive Separations and Carbon Capture |
| 1 Mar 2023 | Prof Michael K C Tam | Innovation in Sustainable Nanomaterials for Advanced Engineering Applications |
| 18 Jan 2023 | Prof Stuart S P Parkin | Beyond Charge Currents: Spin and Ion Currents for Future Data Storage and Computing Technologies |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 9 Dec 2022 | Prof Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University | Exploring the "Matterverse" with Nanomaterial Megalibraries |
| 24 Nov 2022 | Prof Harm-Anton Klok Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Mechanochemistry of Solvent-Swollen Surface-Grafted Polymer Brushes, and Polymer Networks |
| 18 Nov 2022 | Dr Siah Soh Yun GlobalFoundries | Beyond CMOS Scaling: Semiconductor Materials and Applications |
| 14 Nov 2022 | Prof Andrey L. Rogach City University of Hong Kong | Carbon Dot Luminophores |
| 13 Oct 2022 | Prof Raffaele Mezzenga ETH Zürich | Rethinking Food Protein Waste |
| 8 Jun 2022 | Professor Rajarshi Banerjee University of North Texas | Exploiting In situ Chemical Reactions During Laser Additive Manufacturing for Developing Hierarchical Metal-Ceramic Composites |
| 19 Apr 2022 | Prof Pulickel Ajayan Rice University | Promises of Nanotechnology: A Review |
| 4 Feb 2022 | Prof Christopher A. Schuh Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Supersonic collisions of microparticles on metal: In-situ studies at the nanosecond and micrometer scales |
| 6 Jan 2022 | Prof Alejandro Marangoni University of Guelph | Nanoscale Structure and Rheology of Edible Fats |
| 23 Sep 2021 | Prof Karsten Reuter | Data-Enhanced Multiscale Theory of Operando Energy Conversion Systems |
| 31 Aug 2021 | Prof Arokia Nathan | Ultralow Power Flexible Electronics |
| 28 Jul 2021 | Prof Simon Redfern | What Have Minerals Done for Us? Environmental Materials as Societal & Intellectual Resources |
| 11 Nov 2020 | Prof Neil Cameron | Polymer-based Nanomaterials from Supramolecular Processes |
| 26 Oct 2020 | Prof Alvaro Mata University of Nottingham | Dynamic Supramolecular Engineering of Biomaterials: Nanoscale Design, Hierarchical Organization, and Macroscale Functionality |
| 17 March 2020 | Prof David Srolovitz City University of Hong Kong | |
| 10 February 2020 | Prof Philip Demokritou T. H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University, United States | Sustainable Nanotechnology: Bio-inspired, Nature-derived and Non-toxic Nanomaterials for Agri-food Applications |
| 20 January 2020 | Professor Chen Hsin-Lung National Tsing Hua University | How Chemistry Brings in New Physics Problems: Stabilizing OBDD Structure of Block Copolymers by Configurational Regularity |
| 6 December 2019 | Professor Francoise M. Winnik Professor in Department of Chemistry University of Helsinki, Finland | The Assembly of Amphiphilic Polymers in Water: Can Weak Forces Oppose Amphiphilic Segregation? |
| 9 September 2019 | Prof Ray Fernando California Polytechnic State University | Rheological and Colloidal Aspects of Waterborne Paints |
| 15 August 2019 | Prof Jang Wook Choi Seoul National University | Novel Approaches in Emerging Rechargeable Batteries |
| 13 June 2019 | Prof Jwa-Min Nam Seoul National University | Chemical Nanoplasmonics for Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy and Nanobiotechnology |
| 22 May 2019 | Dr Seh Zhi Wei Scientist III, NRF Fellow Institute of Materials Research | Designing Advanced Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion |
| 6 March 2019 | Dr Sergi Tretiak Theoretical Division Center for Nonlinear Studies and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos National Laboratory | Machine Learning for Molecular Properties and Chemistry |
| 01 February 2019 | Professor He Jun Professor of Laboratory for Nanodevices, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology | Two-Dimensional Metal Chalcogenides And Device Applications |
| 15 January 2019 | Professor G. Jeffrey Snyder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University | |
| 7 January 2019 | Professor Andrey Rogach Chair Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering City University of Hong Kong | Light-Emitting Colloidal Nanostructures: Material- and Application-Related Aspects |
| 10 December 2018 | Professor Matthew Tirrell Dean and Founding Pritzker Director, The Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory | Polyelectrolytes in Multivalent Ionic Media: New Physics and New Materials |
| 27 Nov 2018 | Professor Herbert Waite Distinguished Professor University of California, Santa Barbara | Phase-Separated Compartments Control Chemical Reactivity: Lessons from Mussels & Bloodworms |
| 03 Oct 2018 | Professor Zou Bo Chang Jiang Scholar & National Distinguished, Young Scholar State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials College of Physics Jilin University | Pressure Induced Emission Enhancement |
| 25 September 2018 | Dr Amos Matsiko Senior Editor, Nature Materials | |
| 16 August 2018 | Professor Park Nam-Gyu School of Chemical Engineering Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea | Towards Large-Area, Stable, High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells |
| 10 August 2018 | Professor Chen Xiaoming School of Chemistry Sun Yat-Sen University, China Professor Su Chengyong School of Chemistry Sun Yat-Sen University, China | Porous Metal-Azolate Frameworks for Olefin Separation Coordination Assembly of Metal-Organic Materials: Metal-Organic Containers (MOCs) and Applications |
| 19 July 2018 | Professor Zhao Dongyuan | Oriented Assembly of Functional Mesoporous Materials with Multi-Level Architectures |
| 20 June 2018 | Professor Katsushi Fujii (Centre for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN) | Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation using n-type GaN Single Crystal with/without NiO Loading |
| 3 May 2018 | Professor Peter H.L. Notten (Eindhoven University of Technology Honorary Professor, University of TechnologyEindhoven University of Technology Honorary Professor, University of Technology Sydney, International Adjunct Faculty, Amrita University) | Electrochemical Energy Storage: From Materials Research to Battery Modelling |
| 19 April 2018 | Professor Liu Xiaogang Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore | The Search for High Efficiency Energy Conversion Nanocrystals: A Personal Account. |
| 7 March 2018 | Professor Zeng Hua Chun (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering National University of Singapore) | Synthetic Architectures of Multiphasic Functional Nanocomposites |
| 8 February 2018 | Professor Ko Seung Hwan, (Applied Nano and Thermal Science Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering Seoul National University) | Transparent and Flexible/Stretchable Electronics Fabrication by Laser Based Nanomaterials Processing |
| 11 January 2018 | Associate Professor Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, (Department of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Boston) | Engineering the Nano-Bio Interface for Applications in Nanomedicine |
| 3 November 2017 | Assistant Professor Hisatomi Takashi, Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan | Particulate Photocatalyst Systems for Water Splitting |
| 20 October 2017 | Professor Liu Bin (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering National University of Singapore) | Aggregation-Induced Emission: Materials and Biomedical Applications |
| 17 October 2017 | Professor Jian Lu Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Vice-President (Research & Technology), Dean of Graduate Study, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) | Recent Development of Nanomaterials for Advanced Mechanical and Energy Systems
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| 14 September 2017 | Professor Motoko Kotani (Director, Professor and Principal Investigator WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research Tohoku University, Japan) | Structure Understanding of Materials by Discrete Geometric Analysis |
| 30 August 2017 | Assoc. Prof. Colby Shad Thaxton (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University) | Spontaneous Assembly of Bio-Nanoparticles for Next Generation Cardiovascular Disease Diagnostics |
| 4 August 2017 | Professor Christoph Josef Brabec, Chair (i-MEET)
(Materials for electronics and energy technology , Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg) | Molecular Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells: Photophysics, Performance and Lifetime in Comparison to Fullerences |
| 14 June 2017 | Dr. Wolfgang Knoll (Scientific Managing Director AIT Austrian Institute of Technology,Vienna, Austria) | Elements of Molecular Sensory Engineering |
| 3 May 2017 | Dr. Wladek Walukiewicz Adjunct Professor (Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California at Berkeley, USA) | New Materials for Solar Power Conversion Applications |
| 10 April 2017 | Dr. Gregory Jerkiewic | Platinum Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis: Unravelling the Origins of Its Unique Behavior |
| 5 April 2017 | Dr. Peter Gregory | Living in an (Advanced) Materials World |
| 22 March 2017 | Dr. Somchai Tancharakorn Dr. Sarayut Tunmee Dr. Pinit Kidkhunthod | Introduction to Synchrotron Radiation and Its Applications |
| 19 January 2017 | Professor Michael Graetzel (Physical Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Head of Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces) | Mesoscopic Photosystems for the Generation of Electricity and Fuels from Sunlight |
| 11 January 2017 | Professor Lee Chuen Neng Chairman, University Surgical Cluster, National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore | How Can Material Engineers and Scientists Save Lives , Relieve Human Suffering and Improve Health? |
| 14 December 2016 | Professor Alexander M. Korsunsky (The Multi-Beam Laboratory for Engineering Microscopy (MBLEM) Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) | Understanding Stresses and Strains Across the Scales - Mechanical Microscopy Studies at the Oxford MBLEM lab |
| 9 November 2016 | Professor Günther G. Scherer (TUM CREATE, Singapore Energy Research Institute @ NTU) | NAFION® - What is it? A tutorial approach |
| 19 October 2016 | Professor William C. Wimley (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Tulane University School of Medicine) | Synthetic Molecular Evolution of Membrane-Active Peptides |
| 26 September 2016 | Professor Wayne D. Kaplan (Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) | Interfacial States and Thermodynamic Transitions at Interfaces |
| 14 September 2016 | Professor Atul N. Parikh (Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering) | Catching in the Act: Active, Dynamic, and Programmable Behaviours of Far From Equilibrium membrane Biointerfaces |
| 31 August 2016 | Dr Lim Jui (CEO of NTU Innovation) | Passive Income from Brain Juice |
| 10 August 2016 | Professor Jay T. Groves (Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley) | Signal Transduction on Membrane Surfaces: the Roles of Space, Force, and Time |
| 11 May 2016 | Professor Reinhold H. Dauskardt (Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Surgery, Stanford University and the Stanford School of Medicine) | A Journey from Hybrid Films to Human Skin: Understanding Relationships between Structure, Processing and Function |
| 27 April 2016 | Professor Jeffrey Glenn Stanford University | Translating Molecular Virology into Novel Antiviral Strategies |
| 13 April 2016 | Dr C. Shad Thaxton | Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Cardiovascular Disease |
| 23 March 2016 | Professor Robert Sinclair | In Situ and Environmental Electron Microscopy Studies of Material Reactions, at the Atomic Level |
| 16 March 2016 | Professor Paul Braun University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 3D Mesostructured Electrode Concepts for High Energy and Power Density Rechargeable Batteries |
| 24 February 2016 | Professor Samuel Stupp Northwestern University | Supramolecular Materials in Energy and Medicine |
| 20 January 2016 | Professor Katsuhiko Ariga International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics | Hand-Operating Nanotechnology: Can We Control Molecular Machines By Our Hands? YES WE CAN! |
| 16 December 2015 | Professor John Wang National University of Singapore | Polymeric Micelle/Silica Nanocapsules for Bioimaging: Best Hybrid and Beyond |
| 18 November 2015 | Professor Zhenan Bao Stanford University | Morphology by Design: Large-Scale Solution Coating of Organic Semiconductors Thin Film Electronics and Solar Cells |
| 21 October 2015 | Professor Subbu Venkatraman Nanyang Technological University | Nanomaterials in Medicine - A Report Card in 2015 |
| 16 September 2015 | Professor Connie Chang-Hasnain University of California, Berkeley | III-V Nanopillar-Based Devices on a Silicon Substrate |
| 19 August 2015 | Professor Shlomo Magdassi | Nanomaterials for Functional and 3D Printing: From Basic Science to Applications |
| 4 August 2015 | Professor Zhao Dongyuan (Department of Chemistry and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University) | Spherical Mesoporous Architectures: Interfacial Assembly from Single- to Multi-Level and their Applications |
| 1 July 2015 | Professor Yury Gogotsi Drexel University | MXenes: Expanding the World of Two-Dimensional Materials |
| 10 June 2015 | Professor Chan Chi-Ming (Chair Professor, Division of Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)) | Surface Characterization of Polymer Thin Films and Graphene Surfaces |
| 22 April 2015 | Professor Joel Ager Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Materials for Solar Fuel Production |
| 11 March 2015 | Dr. Jose Oliveira Wiley-VCH | Publishing in Wiley Materials Science Journals: The Pre-Screening and Peer Review Process |
| 5 February 2015 | Professor Anthony K. Cheetham (Cambridge MSE and Secretary of the Royal Society) | Flexibility and Phase Transitions in Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| 21 January 2015 | Professor G. Julius Vancso (MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, the Netherlands; And Nanyang University of Technology MSE) | Metal nanoparticle foundry: Smart hydrogels as platforms for direct synthesis and support |
| 10 December 2014 | Professor Junqiao Wu UC-Berkeley | 0D imperfections in 2D and 3D semiconductors |
| 12 November 2014 | Professor Paul Weiss UCLA | Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies |
| 20 October 2014 | Professor Andrew Wee National University of Singapore | 2D Materials and Beyond: Progress and Prospects |
| 29 September 2014 | Professor Freddy Boey Nanyang Technological University | The Golden Age of Materials Science Innovation – some lessons on Innovation and Start Up Companies |