Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 |
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu |
http://about.me/aspuru
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From: Baker, Natasha <nrbaker(a)seas.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:06 PM
Subject: [Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] REMINDER: IACS Seminar:
"Billions and Billions of Molecules: Exploring Chemical Space"----
TOMORROW, Fri 3/13 1-2pm
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Date: Friday, March 13, 2015—— *TOMORROW*
Time: Lunch: 12:30pm; Talk: 1pm
Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Speaker: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University
Title: Billions and Billions of Molecules: Exploring Chemical Space
Abstract: Many of the challenges of the twenty-first century are related
to molecular processes such as the generation, transmission, and storage of
clean energy, water purification and desalination. These transformations
require a next generation of more efficient and ecologically-friendly
materials. In the life sciences, we face similar challenges, for example
drug-resistant bacterial strains require novel antibiotics. One of the
paradigm shifts that the theoretical and experimental chemists needs to
embrace is that of accelerated molecular discovery: The design cycles need
to be sped up by the constant interaction of theoreticians and
experimentalists, the use of high-throughput computational techniques,
tools from machine learning and big data, and the development of public
materials databases. I will describe three projects from my research group
that aim to operate in this accelerated design cycle. First, I will
describe our efforts on the Harvard Clean Energy Project
<http://www.molecularspace.org/>, a search for materials for organic solar
cells. I will continue by talking about our work on developing organic
molecules for energy storage in flow batteries. Finally, I will describe
our work towards the discovery of novel molecules for organic
light-emitting diodes.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
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