The Mason Group meets together weekly during the fall, spring, and summer terms. At these meetings, group members present either current group research or relevant literature. Below are the dates, times, and speakers for group meetings during the 2024-2025 academic year. Fall 2024 meetings are held in Mallinckrodt 217 and Spring 2025 meetings are held in Naito 030, unless otherwise noted. Talk titles will be added as they become available.
This schedule is subject to change.
September 6, 12pm – Joy Cho (research) - “Metal–Organic Frameworks for Permanent Microporosity in Aqueous Media: Design Principles and Applications” - Naito, Room 030
September 9, 2:00pm – Fei Liu (literature) – “Pre-screening of nanocrystal surface functionalization approaches for enhanced colloid stability and biocompatibility”
September 13, 12:00pm - Rahil Ukani (research) – “Heat transport in materials with dynamically disordered chains”
September 20, 12:00pm – Vidhya Dev (literature) – “When Everything Falls Into Place”
September 30, 2:00pm – Faith Chen (research) – “Playing It Cool with Chemistry: Leveraging Chain-Melting Transitions in Layered Materials for Solid-State Cooling”
October 4, 11:00am – Ilbong Lee (literature) – “From Nanostructures to Life: Nanoscale Synthesis and Artificial Cell”
October 7, 1:00pm – Hyukhun Hong (research) – “Interactions of proteins and polymers with microporous metal-organic frameworks in aqueous media”
October 25, 12:00pm – Qichen Song (research) – “Manage the Heat: Unraveling Thermal Transport from Joule Heating to Barocaloric Cooling”
November 4, 1:00pm - Teerat Watcharatpong (research) - “1-D Coordination polymers forming liquid and glass alloys” - Naito, Room 030
November 15, 12:00pm – Dan Erdosy (research) – “Using zeolites to create microporous water with high gas carrying capacities”
November 22, 12:30pm – Bryan Tang (literature) – “Zeta potential” - Naito, Room 030
December 10, 2:00pm – Yukyung Moon (research) – “Elucidating and Enhancing Transport Properties of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Gas Adsorption”
December 13, 12:00pm – Abby Jiang (research) – “If I had a nickel: Tuning electronic structure in nickel oxide thin films with topotactic chemistry”
December 17, 1:30pm – Miranda Walter (literature) – “Squid not SQUID: Cephalopod Inspired Nanomaterials” - Division Room
January 21, 3:30pm – Dan Laorenza (literature) - “Fighting fires with material science”
February 18, 3:30pm – Anusree Natraj (literature) - “Decoding Solubility: A Deep Dive into Hansen Solubility Parameters”
March 7, 2:00pm – Ilbong Lee (research) - “Phase Transition-Induced Coordination Changes in Metal–bis(acetamide) Networks”
March 17, 2:00pm – Joy Cho (literature) – "Ion Desolvation in Micropores"
March 25, 3:30pm – Hong Ki Kim (research) - "Architecting Nanospaces: From Microporous Water to Hydrogel Systems"
April 1, 3:30pm – Faith Chen (literature) – “Thermosalient Transformations: Science So Hot It Jumps Off the Page!”
April 7, 1:30pm – Jason Calvin (research) – "What to Expect When You're Expecting (a Faculty Position)" - Mallinckrodt, Room 217
April 14, 1:30pm – Vidhya Dev (research) - Title TBD
April 15, 3:30pm – Hyukhun Hong (literature) – Title TBD
April 23, 1:00pm – Rahil Ukani (literature) – “Plastics: Promising Polymers, Pollution Problems, and Perspectives”
May 2, 1:30pm – Bryan Tang (research) – Title TBD
May 20, 3:30pm – Miranda Walter (research) – Title TBD
May 22, 2:00pm – Dan Erdosy (literature) – Title TBD
May 27, 3:30pm – Anusree Natraj (research) – Title TBD
June 10, 3:30pm – Dan Laorenza (research) – Title TBD
June 17, 3:30pm – Qichen Song (literature) – Title TBD
June 18, 3:30pm – Yukyung Moon (literature) – Title TBD
June 24, 3:30pm – Abby Jiang (literature) – Title TBD