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Polymer Program Seminar


Nanoparticles and Nanostructures for Catalysis and Sensing


C. J. Zhong

Department of Chemistry
SUNY Binghamton


Friday, April 9, 2004
11:00 am , IMS Room 20



ABSTRACT

We have been exploring a general bottom-up pathway for fabricating nanostructured materials from metal and alloy nanoparticles. This pathway entails molecularly-engineered processing of particle size, shape, composition and surface properties and molecularly-mediated assembly of nanoparticles via hydrophobic, covalent, hydrogen-bonding, or multidentate coordination. The electronic conductivity, interparticle spacing, chemical specificity, dielectric medium, framework binding and molecular channeling properties of the nanostructured materials are fine-tunable for constructing chemical/biological sensing interfaces and for preparing highly-active catalysts. Recent results in the exploration of the nanostructured sensing arrays for detecting volatile organic compounds and ionic species and in the investigation of the nanostructured catalysts for fuel-cell anode and cathode reactions will be discussed.


  • Coffee will be served at 10:45 outside the seminar room.
  • For further information, please contact YH Chudy at ychudy@ims.uconn.edu . or (860) 486-3582 .

This seminar series is sponsored by generous grants from U.S. Surgical Corporation and Rogers Corporation.