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Tags: Departmental Colloquium

Chemists appreciate that the rate of redox reactions can be manipulated by means of an electrical potential gradient. However, it was only in 2016 that it was shown that an external electric field can also be used to catalyze non-redox reactions, thereby opening up a new dimension to chemical catalysis [1]. So-called electrostatic catalysis arises because most chemical species have some degree of polarity and so can be stabilized by an…
This presentation demonstrates the use of discipline-based education research to inform curriculum development and enhance student learning in chemistry, with discussion of general implications for instructional teams engaged in evidence-based course transformation.  Despite multiple calls for reform, introductory science curricula at many universities tends to be fact-based and encyclopedic, built upon a collection of isolated topics,…
In this colloquium, I will start out by giving a general introduction to metal organic framework (MOF) materials, explaining their extreme versatility and thus the tremendous interest in them in physics, chemistry, and materials science. I will then outline the difficulties in reliably modeling interactions of MOFs with small molecules, which are often governed by weak van der Waals forces. These interactions are not easily captured by common…

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