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SUMMARY:Oren Anderson Lecture Series: Adaptive Hybrid Materials Across Disc
 iplines
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20260929T160000
UID:2026-10-02-21-39-23@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20261002T213923
Description:About the seminar:\n\nThe development of the next generation of
  functional materials\, including optoelectronic devices\, stimuli-respons
 ive catalysts\, separation platforms\, and on-demand drug delivery platfor
 ms with tailorable properties\, relies on rapid switching between two or m
 ore distinct forms in bulk solids. The current benchmark in the field of s
 timuli-responsive materials has previously achieved solution-like photoiso
 merization kinetics in the solid state. However\, we present a fundamental
 ly novel approach by far surpassing solution-like photoisomerization kinet
 ics in the solid state through strategic engineering of the molecular envi
 ronment. We showed that the constructed solvent-free pore environment led 
 to a ~1\,000-fold enhancement of the photoisomerization rate in the solid 
 state even compared to one in solution\, setting a record in the field. We
  employed this concept to develop field-effect transistors\, photochromic 
 catalysts\, and “smart” absorbents. In this presentation\, the establi
 shed concept will be discussed in the context of developing stimuli-respon
 sive heterogeneous catalysts that combine the potential for in situ regula
 tion of the reaction parameter space with the enhanced recyclability of so
 lid-state platforms. Specifically\, the avenue toward noninvasive control 
 of chemical reactivity via on-demand modulation of the metal oxidation sta
 te\, establishing a new design principle for adaptive catalytic systems\, 
 is going to be demonstrated. Moreover\, we expand a molecules-to-materials
  concept of adaptive photochromism toward selective metal capture with on-
 demand\, stimulus-triggered release\, driven by demands in nuclear medicin
 e\, critical metal recovery.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nNatalia B. Shustova 
 is a Fred M. Weissman Palmetto Professor in the Department of Chemistry at
  the University of South Carolina (USC). She holds Ph.D. degrees in Physic
 al Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry and completed her postdoctoral traini
 ng at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently\, she serves as
  an Associate Editor at ACS Materials Letters\, following her term as an A
 ssociate Editor of Materials Chemistry Frontiers. Dr. Shustova is a recipi
 ent of international and national awards\, including the Friedrich Wilhelm
  Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation\, IAS Hans Fischer Fel
 lowship\, the National Science Foundation Career Award\, the Cottrell Scho
 lar Award\, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Award\, the Breakthrough Award\, 
 the McCausland Fellowship\, Breakthrough Award\, the Camille Dreyfus Teach
 ing-Scholar Award\, SC ACS Outreach Volunteer of the Year\, and Distinguis
 hed Research Service Award. Dr. Shustova was named a Scialog Fellow of the
  Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RSCA)\, which accelerates 2
 1st-century transformational science through research\, dialog\, and commu
 nity outreach. She also serves on the RSCA Selection Committee\, which ass
 esses the research and educational performance of Assistant Professors acr
 oss institutions in the USA\, selecting the next generation of candidates 
 for the Cottrell Scholar Award. She is a member of the executive committee
  of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and also serves as Chair of th
 e International MOF Committee\, comprising 14 scientists from eight countr
 ies. Her current research interests include graphitic hybrid materials for
  sustainable energy conversion\, the chemistry of f-block elements\, smart
  sorbents\, stimuli-responsive optoelectronics\, sensors\, and gas-phase/s
 olution heterogeneous catalysts. 4:00 pm
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