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Title: Energy and Nano: Emerging Molecular Science & Technology
Date: May 30-31, 2008
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Date: May 30-31, 2008
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Many distinguished lecturers, including Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug, participated in this symposium.
As usual, the Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize was awarded to five girls and five boys, for asking good questions.
Lectures, in chronological order:
Progress of Chinese Science and Technology
Chunli Bai, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Novel Chemistry with Nanomaterials
C. N. R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Single-site Nanoporous Solids: The Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis
Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Engineered Zinc Finger Proteins for Targeted Intervention in Gene Regulation in Biotechnology and Therapeutics
Sir Aaron Klug, 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, United Kingdom
Nanoporous Capsules: Aesthetics and Multifunctionality in Harmony
Achim Müller, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Nanocrystalline Solar Cells for the 21st Century
Michael Graetzel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Switzerland
Phonons and Heat Flow in Nanowires, with Applications to Energy Harvesting and Conversion
Jim Heath, California Institute of Technology, United States
Tug-of-War Collisional Dynamics
Richard Zare, Stanford University, United States
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Nadrian Seeman, New York University, United States
Nanotechnology: Slouching toward Function
George Whitesides, Harvard University, United States
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