• Chemistry Department Seminar: Brian Leonard

    University of Wyoming, presents “Synthesis of Metal Carbide Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy”

    Friday, October 28th, 2016
    3:30 – 5:00 pm / Olin 04

    Transition metal carbide compounds are an interesting class of materials that possess some of the highest melting points and hardness values of all known compounds. These materials are also being sought for precious metal free catalysis due to their abundance, low cost and high stability in extreme environments. Metal carbides have shown similar activity to platinum in some catalytic reactions, however their synthesis typically involves very high temperatures and thus limits exploratory investigations as well as particle sizes. We are developing several low temperature methods to synthesis these refractory materials at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than traditional methods. Through these low temperature methods, we have been able to synthesize several phases as nanomaterials including metastable and rare phases that have been largely ignored due to their difficult synthesis. Finally, these metal carbides have been shown to be promising catalysts for water splitting reactions with high activity and great stability.

  • Lunch With Seminar Speaker Brian Leonard

    Lunch with this week’s seminar speaker will be Friday, 1:10-2:20 p.m., in the LDC.  Meet in the hallway outside Mudd 169.  If you are off board, the department will cover your lunch.

  • Journal Club Meets This Week

    Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
    12:00 – 1:00 pm / Mudd 171

    Have lunch and discuss the work of this week’s seminar speaker. The paper we’ll be discussing will be found here.

  • The Office of Student Fellowships

    The Office of Student Fellowships is beginning to solicit students for Carleton ­funded fellowships for projects to be conducted during 2017 summer or winter breaks, as well as for various externally ­funded fellowships. Interest meetings are as follows:

    Wednesday, October 26th, 5:30 – 6:30 PM in Weitz 236 – Summer Funding Opportunities(Carleton-funded) Information Meeting

    Friday, October 28th, 12 Noon – 1:00 PM in Weitz 131 – Boren Scholarship Information Meeting

    Monday, November 7th, 4:30 – 5:00 PM in Leighton 236 – Davis Projects for Peace Information Meeting.    Repeated on:
     Thursday, Nov 10th, 12:15 – 12:45 PM, Leighton 236

    ​For more information on these and other Fellowships, please visit the Fellowships website.

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