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SUMMARY:Toward a paradigm of materials design: kinetic control in solid sta
 te chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20180001T000000
UID:2026-05-04-20-21-29@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260504T202129
Description:Seminar Abstract:\n\nA significant challenge in chemistry resea
 rch is to rationally control structure-property relationships in materials
  to achieve desired properties. The prevailing approach to this challenge 
 involves the serendipitous discovery of materials or the incremental modif
 ication of solid-state reactions. Therefore\, the search for new materials
  is often limited by phase equilibria or is inhibited by reactant diffusio
 n and product nucleation. To circumvent these limitations\, solid-state me
 tathesis reactions have provided us with the opportunity to achieve kineti
 c control in solid-state chemistry. The pathways of these metathesis react
 ions can be altered in order to change how or what material is formed. For
  example\, this has lead to the isolation of a metastable superconductor (
 high-pressure CuSe2) using a kinetically-controlled synthesis under mild c
 onditions. Insights into these solid-state reactions\, as provided by stud
 y of these reactions in situ\, reveal great potential for the formulation 
 of new reactions which selectively form metastable materials that are not 
 accessible through standard solid state chemistry\, and push the field tow
 ards a paradigm of prescriptive synthesis. 4:00 pm
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