The Chem dept's Distinguished Visiting Speaker 2006 is Dr. Klaus Mullen. He will be lecturing on the University of Calgary campus Sep 20-22. His bio and lecture descriptions are below, but you can contact the dept for more info: info@chem.ucalgary.ca, 220-5341.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen was born in Cologne in 1947 and obtained his Diplomchemiker-Degree in 1969 at the University of Cologne under the direction of Prof. E. Vogel. He then went on to Ph.D. studies at the University of Basel, obtaining his doctorate under the direction of Prof. F. Gerson in 1971. His postdoctoral work, including Habilitation, was done at the ETH Zürich from 1972-1978, under the mentorship of Prof. J. F. M. Oth. After a brief tenure at ETH Zürich as a Privatdozent, he became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cologne in 1979. From 1983-1989, he held a Professorship at the University of Mainz, after which he became a member of the Max Planck Society and took up his current position as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Prof. Müllen is a world leader in nanotechnology and functional polymer research; current interests include new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; initiators and additives for radical or anionic polymerization; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; nanocomposites.
Prof. Müllen’s influence internationally is manifest in his many Journal Editorships, Advisory Board and Evaluation Committee appointments, both nationally in Germany and abroad, and several Visiting Professorships in Japan, China, France and the United States.
Prof. Müllen’s work has been honored with several awards, including the Max-Planck Research Prize, the Philip-Morris-Research-Prize, the NOZOE-Award (San Diego), the Kyoto University Foundation Award, the Science Award of the "Stifterverband", and the International Award of the Belgian Polymer Group. In addition, he has delivered many named lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America, to which he now adds the University of Calgary’s ICI Distinguished Lecture series.
Research Lectures
“Dyes and Pigments - The Fascination and Function of Color”
Wednesday Lecture September 20th, 4:00 p.m. Administration Bldg. Room 142
Dyes and pigments are fascinating functional colorants. Their applications range from biolabelling and optoelectronics to laser welding of polymers and probing of polymer morphologies. Dye labelled biosynthetic hybrid structures are introduced with potential in sensing, transfection and drug delivery. A particularly important aspect for dye-stuff chemistry is single molecule spectroscopy, which allows the monitoring of complex chemical and physical processes without ensemble averaging.
“Nanographenes - From Benzene to Optoelectronics and Single Molecule Devices”
Friday Lecture September 22nd, 4:00 p.m. Administration Bldg. Room 142
Nanographenes are novel, structurally perfect and processable graphite materials that can be assembled to columnar superstructures. The latter serve as powerful transport channels in solar cells and field-effect transistors. Nanographenes are useful objects for scanning tunnelling microscopy allowing their direct visualization and manipulation in real space. The synthesis of single polymers or fabrication of single molecule field-effect transistors are exiting examples of their potential. Further, mild pyrolysis of carbon-rich graphene molecules affords unprecedented carbon nanoparticles. A new method of deposition of nanographenes from the gas phase (soft-landing) provides highly ordered thin layer structures for electronic devices.
Public Lecture
"Nano – Hype or Hope?"
Thursday Night Lecture September 21st, 7:30 p.m. Tom Oliver Lecture Theatre
Earth Sciences, Room 162
Nanoscience is regarded as a fascinating, but somewhat fashionable field of research. Today’s nanotechnology is of immense economic significance, but mainly utilizes “old” nanoparticles such as lattices made by emulsion polymerization and pigments.
A “new” nanoscience requires the design of new molecules such as shape-persistent dendrimers, giant graphene molecules, carbon micro- and nanoparticles or complex latex particles. These materials allow for light harvesting or single photon emission for cryptography and can be applied for single-molecule field effect transistors or as smart supports for metallocene catalysts in polyolefin synthesis. In combination with new physical methods such as scanning probe and confocal optical microscopies the chemist becomes able to detect and to manipulate even single molecules.
After this talk, a reception will be held at the University Club, to which all members of the audience are invited.
You are cordially invited to share in this outstanding lecture series. The Thursday evening lecture will be suitable for non-scientists, and the occasion will provide an opportunity for members of the community to meet Dr. Müllen and members of the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary.
Sponsored by ICI CANADA INC. in association with the Department of Chemistry
in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary.
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