RSC Seminar Series
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No events are currently scheduled.
Past events
01
Oct
2020
Dr Christoph Nitsche - "Targeting viral ptoteases with modified peptides" »
Viral infectious diseases are a serious global health threat. For many viruses, safe vaccines and specific antiviral treatments are yet unavailable.
03
Sep
2020
Associate Professor Jane Allison - "Peppy: A virtual reality environment for exploring the principles of polypeptide structure" »
Science students are traditionally taught protein structure and function through textbook pictures and/or physical model building.
27
Aug
2020
Dr Simone Ciampi - Electrochemistry in 2D: new instruments for redox microscopy »
Monitoring or manipulating electrochemical reactions in 2D ‒ a central theme from analytical chemistry to cell biology ‒ is generally achieved using scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM).
28
May
2020
Dr Alexey Glushenkov - Title:Constructing dual-ion energy storage cells: capacitors and batteries »
Lithium-ion batteries operating via the so called “rocking chair” mechanism (insertion and de-insertion of lithium ion in both electrodes) are the current state-of-the-art energy storage solutions for many applications.
21
May
2020
Dr Róisín McMahon - Title: From Proteins to Policy »
Róisín will share how she made the leap from the proteins to policy
14
May
2020
Dr Colin Scott - Title: Improving Nature’s Nanotechnology to Build Molecular Assembly Lines »
Biocatalysis is an attractive route for the synthesis of complex organic molecules, such as pharmaceuticals, due to the properties of enzymes (high specificity and high catalytic rate)
07
May
2020
Prof Feng Wang - Title: Digital structures and their applications in computational chemistry towards machine learning »
The fourth industrial revolution will be digital technology and computer simulation driven. Computational chemistry is turning into digital chemistry
23
Apr
2020
Professor Michelle Coote - Title Electrochemical and Electrostatic Catalysis of Chemical Reactions »
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 we showed that an external electric field can also be used to catalyze non-redox reactions, thereby opening up a new dimension to chemical catalysis.
23
Apr
2020
(CANCELLED) Associate Professor Colette Boskovic - Title Inorganic Molecular Materials: Functional Metal Complexes »
Molecular materials with physical properties that can be controlled by external parameters, such as temperature, light or magnetic field are important synthetic targets because they form the basis of molecular devices
16
Apr
2020
Daniel Preston - Title: Trying to make complicated stuff from simple bits and pieces »
All of our genetic instructions arise from a four letter alphabet, two sets of complementary base pairs.
02
Apr
2020
(CANCELLED) Professor Thomas Maschmeyer - Title Going Global: Cat-HTR to Upgrade Plastic and Biomass Wastes into Oils and Chemicals »
This talk deals in the main with the translation of fundamental scientific discoveries in catalysis into commercial reality, focusing on the Catalytic Hydrothermal Upgrading Reactor Technology (Cat-HTR).
26
Mar
2020
Associate Professor Scott Stewart - »
Title and abstract TBA
19
Mar
2020
Professor Emily Parker - Title Biosynthetic Enzymes: Tools and Targets »
This talk will cover our work examining enzyme allosteric communication mechanisms and our exploration of biosynthetic routes to natural products.
12
Mar
2020
Professor Qin Li - Title N-Doped Nanocarbons: Synthesis, Properties and Applications »
Nano-carbons, including carbon nanotubes, graphene and carbon quantum dots, are offering not only the most conductive material in the world, but also the potential successor to conventional semiconducting material and new materials with extraordinary optical and catalytic properties that were not conceived in the past
05
Mar
2020
Australia’s Electricity System: Past, Present and Future »
Australia is in the midst of an energy revolution and over the next 30 years, Australia will permanently transition away from coal fired generation, towards an electricity grid powered by renewables and energy storage.