March 28, 2018<\/p>\n
4th Annual VINSE Student Selected Seminar Series<\/p>\n
George Whitesides<\/strong> \u201cQuantum Tunneling in Organic Matter and Molecular Electronics\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Abstract. This talk will describe the development and use of a junction (the \u201cEGaIn\u201d junction) based on insulating self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) sandwiched between two metal electrodes\u2014one usually gold or silver, and the other a low-melting liquid eutectic alloy of gallium and indium\u2014and the use of these systems to study mechanisms of electron transfer by tunneling across them. This talk characterizes this junction as a tool that is exceptionally useful in physical-organic studies of charge (hole) transport by tunneling through organic molecules, and describes the emerging picture of tunneling of charge through organic insulators that emerges from these studies.<\/p>\n Bio. George M. Whitesides received his AB degree from Harvard University in 1960, and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 (with J.D Roberts).\u00a0 He began his independent career at M.I.T., and is now the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard Univestiy.\u00a0 His current research interests include physical and organic chemistry, materials science, biophysics, water, self-assembly, complexity and simplicity, origin of life, dissipative systems, affordable diagnostics, and soft robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 28, 2018 4th Annual VINSE Student Selected Seminar Series George Whitesides Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor Harvard University \u201cQuantum Tunneling in Organic Matter and Molecular Electronics\u201d 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract. This talk will describe the development and use of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4798,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vinse-colloquium","category-events","tag-vinse-colloquium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
\nWoodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
\nHarvard University<\/p>\n
\nRefreshments served at 3:45<\/p>\n