Student Hosted Physical Chemistry Seminar

Thursday, October 12th
Professor Tobin Marks
"New Materials and Fabrication Processes for Organic, Printed, and other Uncoventional Elecronics"

4:15pm - 5:15pm
Braun Lecture Hall
S.G.Mudd Chemistry Building
Stanford University



This seminar is free and open to the public. All Stanford University Chemistry students are encouraged to attend this special event.

About the seminar
Chemists are exceptionally skilled at designing and constructing individual molecules with the goal of imbuing them with defined chemical and physical properties. However, the task of rationally assembling them into organized, functional supramolecular structures with precise, nanometer-level control is a daunting challenge. In this lecture, approaches to addressing this problem are described in which the ultimate goal is the fabrication of organic and other unconventional electronic circuit by printing techniques. Issues here concern not only the rational design of high-mobility p- and n-type organic semiconductors, but also modular high-k dielectrics with ultra-high capacitance, low leakage, and high breakdown fields.

About Marks:
Tobin J. Marks is Ipatieff Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his B.S. from the U. of Maryland (1966) and Ph.D. from MIT (1971). Of his 60 named lectureships and awards, he has received ACS Awards in Polymeric Materials, 1983; Organometallic Chemistry, 1989; Inorganic Chemistry, 1994; and the Chemistry of Materials, 2001; 2000 Cotton Medal, Texas A&M ACS Section; 2001 Willard Gibbs Medal, Chicago ACS Section; 2001 North American Catalysis Society Burwell Award; 2001 Linus Pauling Medal, Pacific Northwest ACS Sections; 2002 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal; 2003 German Chemical Society Karl Ziegler Medal; 2003 Ohio State University Evans Medal; 2004 Royal Society of Chemistry Frankland Medal; 2005 Bailar Medal, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993; Member, U. S. National Academy of Sciences, 1993; Member, Leopoldina German National Academy of Natural Sciences, 2005. He is on the editorial boards of 9 major journals; consultant, advisor, or founder for 6 major corporations and start-ups, and has published 825 research articles and 83 U.S. patents.

Questions
Please contact Patricia Dwyer at 650-723-4770.