-NRG 0.1 Lectures: Leading scientists discuss topics related to energy technology and innovation and demonstrate how students can assist in the ongoing research in this field. These lectures are all available to view or download at the website. -Other Caltech Lectures on Energy:
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
John E. Bryson
Commissioner, National Commission on Energy Policy
"Energy and Climate Policy: The Decade Ahead"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Joshua Spurgeon
Caltech Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering
"Rolling Out the Solar Carpet: Microwave Solar Cells In Flexible Polymer Layers"
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Harry Gray
Caltech Beckman Professor of Chemistry
"Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel"
2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
Dr. Steve Chu
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"The Energy Problem and What We Can Do about It"
Monday, April 9, 2007
Professor James M. Mayer
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
"Coupled Proton-Electron Transfer Reactions, with Metals and Without"
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Professor Shannon S. Stahl
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Palladium-Dioxygen Reactivity and Aerobic Oxidation Catalysts"
Friday, March 30, 2007
Caroline Saouma
Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
"Carbon Dioxide Activation by Low Valent Iron"
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Professor Stephen L. Buchwald
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications, and Mechanistic Studies"
Friday, March 2, 2007
Neal Mankad
Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
"Dinitrogen Chemistry at Five-Coordinate Iron Centers"
Monday, February 5, 2007
Professor Joseph Sadighi
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of the Group 11 Metals: Synthetic and Catalytic Studies"
Monday, January 29, 2007
Dr. Etsuko Fujita
Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: If Nature Can Do It, Why Can't We?"
2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Professor Vernon C. Gibson
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London
"Controlling Catalytic Reactivity Through Metal Spin State"
Monday, November 6, 2006
Professor Stefan Bernhard
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
"Synthetically Tuned Luminophoric Materials: 3D Displays, Solar Energy Conversion, and Beyond"
Monday, October 30, 2006
Professor Milko E. van der boom
Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
"Metals Take a Walk"
Monday, September 25, 2006
Professor Lutz H. Gade
Department of Chemistry, University of Heidelberg
"Modular Strategies in Oxazoline Ligand Design: Applications in Homogeneous Catalysis"
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Professor James A. Ibers
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
"Non-Stoichiometry"
Monday, May 1, 2006
Professor Marc J. A. Johnson
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
"Tuning the Reactivity of Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Reactive Nitrides and Stable Carbides"
Monday, April 10, 2006
Professor Daniel J. Mindiola
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
"What a Difference One Electron Makes. Synthetic Strategies to Achieve Low-Coordinate Early-Transition Metal Complexes Bearing Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds"
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Professor Israel Pecht
Weizmann Institute of Science
"Electron Transfer in Proteins; Lessons from Pulse-Radiolysis"
Monday, March 13, 2006
Professor Christophe Coperet
Laboratory of Surface Organometallic Chemistry, CPE Lyon
"Molecular Understanding of Heterogeneous Catalysts"
Monday, February 13, 2006
Professor Paul J. Chirik
Department of Chemistry, Cornell University
"Catalytic Bond Forming Reactions with Iron: The Importance of Electronic Structure"
Monday, February 6, 2006
Professor Andrew A. Gewirth
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Studies of Metal Surface-Molecular Interactions Relevant to Fuel Cell Catalysis: Oxygen and Water"
Monday, January 30, 2006
Dr. R. Morris Bullock
Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Catalytic Ionic Hydrogenations and Carbon-to-Metal Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions"
Monday, January 23, 2006
Professor Andrew B. Bocarsly
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
"Cyanogels and Cyanosols: High Temperature Coordination Chemistry as a Novel Approach to Materials Chemistry"
Monday, January 9, 2006
Professor Stephen J. Lippard
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Chemical and Biological O2 Activation and Hydrocarbon Oxidation by Diiron Carboxylates"
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Professor Jean-Marie Basset
Laboratory of Surface Organometallic Chemistry, CPE Lyon
"Surface Organometallic Chemistry: A Key to Discovery of New Catalytic Reactions via Single-Site Catalysts"
