Conference Program

 

Wednesday, May 25

                                    arrival at Notre Dame and checking in O' Neil residence hall and hotels

 

Thursday, May 26                  

  8:00 -   9:00               registration and pickup of conference materials

  9:00 -   9:10               opening remarks

 

                                    Morning: Slavi Sevov, presiding

  9:10 -   9:40               Prof. John Greedan, McMaster University

Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in BaV10O15. Co-existence of Long Range and Glassy Spin Ordering

  9:40 - 10:00               Prof. Paul Maggard, North Carolina State University

Layered Hybrid Solids - Disassembly Not Included

10:00 - 10:15               Eric Quarez, Michigan State University

Nano-structuring, Compositional Fluctuations and Atomic Ordering in the Thermoelectric Materials AgPbmSbTe2+m. The myth of Solid Solutions.

 

10:15 - 11:00               poster set-up

 

11:00 - 11:30               Prof. Jim Ibers, Northwestern University

Adventures in Metal Chalcogenide Chemistry

11:30 - 11:45               Indika U. Arachchige, Wayne State University

Highly Luminescent Mesoporous CdSe Aerogels

11:45 - 12:00               William C. Sheets, Northwestern University

Hydrothermal Synthesis of Delafossite-type Oxides

 

12:00 -   1:30               lunch

 

                                    Afternoon: John Greedan, presiding

  1:30 -   2:00               Prof. Holger Kleinke, University of Waterloo

Narrow gap heavy main group semiconductors

  2:00 -   2:15               Athena Sefat, McMaster University

The Magnetic & Electronic Interactions at the Mott Transition in Nd1-xTiO3

  2:15 -   2:30               Christos Malliakas, Michigan State University

Resolving the distortion in the square nets of tellurium of the modulated RETe3 (RE=Ce, Pr and Nd) materials

  2:30 -   2:45               Young-Il Kim, Ohio State University

Dielectric Property of Perovskite Oxynitrides

  2:45 -   3.00               Paul A. Giesting, University of Notre Dame

Crystal structure of uranyl oxalates

 

  2:55 -   4:00               posters

 

  4:00 -   4:20               Prof. Mario Bieringer, University of Manitoba

Exploring Anion Ordered Transition Metal Oxychloride Phases

  4:20 -   4:35               Jonathan W. Lekse, Duquesne University

Development of a Solid-State Microwave Synthetic Method for Preparation of Diamond-Like Semiconductors

  4:35 -   5:05               Prof. Paul McGinn, University of Notre Dame

Combinatorial Processing and Characterization of Inorganic Materials

 

Friday, May 27            Morning: Mario Bieringer, presiding

  9:00 -   9:30               Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis, Michigan State University

The Metal Flux - A Preparative Tool for the Exploration of Intermetallic Compounds

  9:30 -   9:45               Shahab Derakhshan, University of Waterloo

Square Net Distortion Engineering in the Titanium Antimonide Ti2Sb

  9:45 - 10:00               Craig Bridges, University of Liverpool

Electronic structure and formation pathway of the transition metal oxide hydride LaSrCoO3H0.7

10:00 - 10:20               Yurij Mozharivskij, Iowa State University

Chemistry of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect Material Gd5Si2Ge2 and Related Phases

 

10:20 - 11:00               break (photo)

 

11:00 - 11:30               Prof. Peter Burns, University of Notre Dame

The Crystal Chemistry of Actinyl Peroxides

11:30 - 11:45               Fudong Wang, Washington University

Synthesis, photoluminescence, and quantum-confinement effects of colloidal InP quantum wires and quantum rods

11:45 - 12:00               Cheol-Hee Park, Oregon State University

Wide band-gap p-type semiconductor BaCuSF and related materials: powder and thin films

 

12:00 -   1:30               lunch

 

                                    Afternoon: Jim Ibers, presiding

  1:30 -   2:00               Prof. Arnold Guloy, University of Houston

The Chemical Nature of Polar Intermetallics: New Insights into the Chemical Bonding and Reactivity of Zintl Phases

  2:00 -   2:15               P. Subramanya Herle, University of Waterloo

Redox-Driven Phase Transitions

  2:15 -   2:30               Joseph Wachter, Michigan State University

New Phase-Change Materials For Optical Data Storage Applications

  2:30 -   3:00               Prof. Kenneth Henderson, University of Notre Dame

Use of s-Block Metal Aggregates in Controlling Network Assembly

 

  3:00 -   4:00               posters

 

  4:00 -   4:15               Shawn Resler, Washington University

Evidence for Electrostatic Stabilization in Thermally-Induced Growth of Alkanethiol-Gold Clusters Determined by a Unified Cluster Aggregation and Ripening Model

  4:15 -   4:30               Jose Goicoechea, University of Notre Dame

Transition Metal-Centered Zintl Anions in Solution

  4:30 -   5:00               Dr. Lynda Soderholm, Argonne National Laboratory

Actinide Solution Speciation Using High-Energy X-Ray Scattering

 

Saturday, May 28        Morning: Svilen Bobev, presiding

  9:00 -   9:30               Prof. William Buhro, Washington University

Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Wires:  Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Confinement Effects

  9:30 -   9:45               Qisheng Lin, Iowa State University

Quasicrystals and Approximants in the Sc-Mg-Zn system: Prediction and Realization

  9:45 - 10:00               Palaniappan Arumugam, Wayne State University

Synthesis and Characterization of Layered Transition Metal Pnictate Nanoparticles - Precursor Materials to Pnictide Nanoparticle Arrays

10:00 - 10:15               Prof. Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University

Conducting Main Group Metal Oxides

 

10:15 - 10:30               break

 

10:30 - 10:45               Paul Kšgerler, Iowa State University

Networking Polyoxomolybdate-Based Clusters

10:45 - 11:00               Pierre Poudeu, Michigan State University

Design in solid state chemistry based on phase homologies. Sb4Te3 and Sb8Te9 as new members of the series (Sb2Te3)má(Sb2)n

11:00 - 11:30               Prof. Timothy Hughbanks, Texas A&M University

The Magnetic Properties of Compounds with Clusters and low-D structures