Invited Seminars
| Title: | Fabrication of Complex Nanostructures by Colloidal Chemistry
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| Speaker: | Prof Chen Hongyu
Nanyang Technological University @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Liu Xiaogang |
| Date/Time: | 29 Apr (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Poly(arylene ether) Ionomer Membrane with Nano-scale Microstructure for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Applications
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| Speaker: | Prof Meng Yuezhong
Sun Yat-Sen University, China @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Lu Yixin |
| Date/Time: | 15 Apr (Thu), 5 – 6pm |
| Title: |
DNA Detection at the Nanoscale
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| Speaker: | Prof Fan Chunhai
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, China @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Xu Qing-Hua |
| Date/Time: | 15 Apr (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
New Anion Receptors and Transporters
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| Speaker: | Prof Phil Gale
University of Southampton, United Kingdom @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Prof J J Vittal |
| Date/Time: | 9 Apr (Fri), 12 – 1pm |
| Title: |
Fixation of Carbon Dioxide as Biodegradable Plastics: Theory, Commercialization and Application |
| Speaker: | Prof Meng Yuezhong
Sun Yat-Sen University, China @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Lu Yixin |
| Date/Time: | 8 Apr (Thu), 5 – 6pm |
| Title: |
How do functional groups interact? Learning from Paracyclophanes |
| Speaker: | Prof Henning Hopf
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | A/P Stephan Jaenicke |
| Date/Time: | 8 Apr (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Can invention be invented
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| Speaker: | Prof Henning Hopf
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | A/P Tanja Weil |
| Date/Time: | 5 Apr (Mon), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Bridging Chemistry and Biology: On the Design of Chiral Space for Asymmetric Induction in a Catalytic Synthetic Reaction |
| Speaker: | Prof Barry M Trost
Stanford University, USA @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | A/P Tan Choon Hong |
| Date/Time: | 1 Apr (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Applications of Hydrogen Bonding Modules (HBMs) as Nanoscale Adhesion Agents |
| Speaker: | Prof Steven C. Zimmerman University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Zeng Huaqiang |
| Date/Time: | 26 Mar (Fri), 1 – 2pm |
| Title: |
Hydrogen Bonding Networks in (Asymmetric) Organocatalysis |
| Speaker: | Prof Albrecht Berkessel Universitaet zu Koeln @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Prof Andy Hor |
| Date/Time: | 25 Mar (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Characterization of Reactive Intermediates in Organocatalyses with Amines - mechanisms revisited |
| Speaker: | Prof Dieter Seebach ETH, Zűrich, Switzerland @S16 Level 3 LT31 |
| Host/(s) | Prof Andy Hor |
| Date/Time: | 18 Mar (Thu), 5 – 6pm |
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| Title: |
beta-Peptides - A mystery tour from curiosity to synthesis to biomedical sciences |
| Speaker: |
Prof Dieter Seebach ETH, Zűrich, Switzerland @S16 Level 3 LT31 <Public Lecture by Department of Chemistry, NUS in partnership with SNIC, ICES and Science Centre> |
| Host/(s) | Prof Andy Hor |
| Date/Time: | 18 Mar (Thu), 3.30 – 4.30pm |
| Title: |
Molecular Engineering of Folded Nanoarchitectures |
| Speaker: | Prof Ivan Huc European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, France @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Zeng Huaqiang |
| Date/Time: | 15 Mar (Mon), 3 - 4pm |
| Title: |
Part 1 - [4+1] cycloaddition of 1,3-dienes and nitrene precursors Part 2 - Improvement of Suzuki reactions of heteroaryls |
| Speaker: |
Asst Prof Steve Zhou Nanyang Technological University, Singapore @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Zeng Huaqiang |
| Date/Time: | 11 Mar (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Chemical tools to image and dissect signaling networks |
| Speaker: |
Prof Carsten Schultz European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Martin Lear |
| Date/Time: | 8 Mar (Mon), 1 – 2pm |
| Title: |
Highly conductive and transparent conducting polymer and carbon nanotube films and their application in organic solar cells |
| Speaker: | Asst Prof Ouyang Jianyong National University of Singapore @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Xu Qinghua |
| Date/Time: | 4 Mar (Thu), 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Synthetic Approaches for Hollow Micro- and Nanostructures
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| Speaker: | Prof Zeng Hua Chun National University of Singapore @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Prof J J Vittal |
| Date/Time: | 25 Feb 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Teaching and Learning – What is the Difference? (Part 2)
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| Speaker: | Prof Alexandra Maria Van Herk Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Assoc Prof Lai Yee Hing |
| Date/Time: | 25 Feb 2010, 10 – 11am |
| Title: |
Controlling Neural Activity with Molecular Switches
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| Speaker: | Prof Dirk Trauner University of Munich, Germany @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Dr Martin Lear |
| Date/Time: | 18 Feb 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Lewis and Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Strategies for Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation
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| Speaker: | Prof Philip Chan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Dr Chi Chunyan |
| Date/Time: | 11 Feb 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Teaching and Learning – What is the Difference? (Part 1)
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| Speaker: | Prof Alexandra Maria Van Herk Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Assoc Prof Lai Yee Hing |
| Date/Time: | 11 Feb 2010, 10 – 11am |
| Title: |
Real-time Detection, Measurement & Analysis of Nano-sized particles with Adjustable Nanopore
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| Speaker: | Dr Sam Yu The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, New Zealand @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Dr Emelyn Tan |
| Date/Time: | 10 Feb 2010, 11am – 12nn |
| Title: | Biomimetic Synthesis of Complex Natural Products |
| Speaker: | Prof. John E. Moses University of Nottingham, United Kingdom @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Dr Edith Chan |
| Date/Time: | 9 Feb 2010, 12 – 2pm |
| Title: |
Threaded Structures Based on Crown Ether Derivatives |
| Speaker: | Prof Huang Feihe Zhejiang University, China @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Lu Yixin |
| Date/Time: | 4 Feb 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Control of the Surface Properties of Materials - Unique Chemical Methodology
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| Speaker: | Dr Mark Moloney Oxford University, UK @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Martin James Lear |
| Date/Time: | 28 Jan 2010, 5 – 6pm |
| Title: |
Chemistry, Materials, Challenges and a little History |
| Speaker: | Prof Robert Grubbs California Institute of Technology, USA @Uhall Level 2 Auditorium |
| Host/(s) | Prof Xu Guo Qin |
| Date/Time: | 28 Jan 2010, 11am – 12pm |
| Title: |
Surface Chemistry in Alkali Metal Atomic Magnetometers |
| Speaker: | Prof Steven L. Bernasek Princeton University, New Jersey @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Xu Qing-hua |
| Date/Time: | 25 Jan 2010, 5 – 6pm |
| Title: |
Oligosacharide Vaccines Synthesis and Carbohydrate Vaccines
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| Speaker: | Prof Peter Seeberger Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Martin James Lear |
| Date/Time: | 25 Jan 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Following polypeptide folding and assembly with conformational switches
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| Speaker: | Dr Beate Koksch Free University Berlin, Germany @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Martin James Lear |
| Date/Time: | 25 Jan 2010, 10 – 11am |
| Title: |
Exploration of New Anti-Influenza Drugs
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| Speaker: | Prof Fang Jim-Min National Taiwan University , Taiwan @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Assoc Prof Tan Choon Hong |
| Date/Time: | 21 Jan 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Trying to Control Stereochemistry in Alkaloid Synthesis |
| Speaker: | Asst Prof Roderick Bates Nanyang Technological University, Singapore @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Wang Jian |
| Date/Time: | 18 Jan 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: | Biofunctional Molecules for the Functional Studies of Proteins and Carbohydrates |
| Speaker: | Prof Injae Shin Yonsei University, Korea @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Host: Assoc Prof Yao Shao Qin |
| Date/Time: | 14 Jan 2010, 5 – 6pm |
| Title: |
Menaquinone biosynthesis and its regulation in Escherichia coli
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| Speaker: | Assoc Prof Guo Zhihong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Assoc Prof Yao Shao Qin |
| Date/Time: | 14 Jan 2010, 4 – 5pm |
| Title: |
Nanoporous Materials and their Multiple Functions
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| Speaker: | Dr Ajayan Vinu National Institute for Materials Science, Japan @S8 Level 3 Executive Room |
| Host/(s) | Asst Prof Chan Yin Thai |
| Date/Time: | 7 Jan 2010, 4 – 5pm |