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Title: Chemistry of Materials
Date:Feb 2-3, 2009
Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India
The third Molecular Frontiers Symposium was held in Jakkur, Bangalore, India.
Lectures, in chronological order:
Saswati Datta, Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, United States: "Role of the Surface in Controlling Properties of Materials"
Paresh C. Ray, Jackson State University, United States: "Size and Distance Dependence NSET Ruler for Selective Sensing of environmental toxin"
Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University, United States: "Self-Assembly Processes for Fabricating Unconventional Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Electronic Circuitry"
Tony Cheetham, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: "Inorganic and Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials"
Martin Jansen, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany: "Recent Achievements and Perspectives in Fullerene Chemistry"
C.N.R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India: "Multiferroics”
The program also contained a session about science education, and a youth forum featuring, among others, professors Richard Zare, Bengt Nordén, and C.N.R. Rao, where hundreds of high school and pre-university students had the opportunity to ask questions.
