Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Wonmi Ahn​

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Wonmi Ahn Title: Strong Light-Matter Interactions Influencing Chemical Reactions: Plasmonic Photocatalysis and Polaritonic Chemistry Speaker: Dr. Wonmi Ahn Insitute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University Ankara, Türkiye Date: December 21, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss two different mechanisms of light-matter […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Erol Yıldırım

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Erol Yıldırım Title: Applications of Multiscale Modeling Methods on Soft Matter Materials Speaker: Dr. Erol Yıldırım Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Türkiye Date: December 14, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Dr. Yıldırım’s research focuses on calculating how molecular structures and dynamics of soft matter […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Tülay Aygan Ateşin

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Tülay Aygan Ateşin Title: Supercomputing the ‘How’ of Palladium-Catalyzed Organometallic Reactions Speaker: Dr. Tülay Aygan Ateşin Department of Chemistry, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley  Edinburg, Texas, United States Date: December 7, 2021, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs have been accidentally discovered. […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. John C. Warner

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. John C. Warner Title: Green Chemistry: Inventing a Circular Economy Speaker: Dr. John C. Warner Zymergen Corporation Emeryville, California, United States Date: November 30, 2021, Tuesday Time: 18:00 Place: Zoom Abstract: The natural world is a beautiful and intricate system of intertwined and overlapping materials ecosystems. As humans, our […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı Title: Scalable Engineering of Micro/Nanoscale Devices and Systems Speaker: Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University Istanbul, Türkiye Date: November 16, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Around 1980s, following the advancements in semiconductor device fabrication technology, a new class […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Özge Akbulut

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Özge Akbulut Title: Ceramics 4.0 Speaker: Dr. Özge Akbulut, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, Sabancı University Istanbul, Türkiye Date: November 2, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Compared to metals and polymers, the incorporation of ceramics into the framework of Industry 4.0 has been lagged due to the […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza Title: CO2 Reduction Catalysis: Solving a Social Dilemma Speaker: Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut, United States Date: October 26, 2021, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Metal complexes are capable electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Particularly, the tunability of the first and […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Gökhan Çelik

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Gökhan Çelik Title: Catalytic Upcycling of Single-Use Polyolefins into Lubricants: A Path Forward for Circular Economy Speaker: Dr. Gökhan Çelik Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory Chicago, Illinois, United States Date: October 12, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Polymers are ubiquitous, critical to the function […]

Baytekin Research Group’s Work on New Scientist

Baytekin Research Group’s Work on New Scientist The article titled “Self-Regulating Plant Robots: Bioinspired Heliotropism and Nyctinasty” authored by Suleyman Doruk Cezan, Hasan Tarik Baytekin, and Bilge Baytekin (https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2019.0036) is highlighted in popular science magazine, New Scientist. Bilge Baytekin, associate professor at our department and head of Baytekin Research Group

New Article is Accepted as a Cover in the Journal of Physical Chemistry

New Article is Accepted as a Cover in the Journal of Physical Chemistry The cover which illustrates matching experimental and modeling results of the potential distribution of ionic liquids under applied electrical perturbation. XPS provides an experimental probe of the local potential and modeling that can be done through simple electrostatics in addition to the pairing […]