Please join Yale Chemistry for a Silliman Seminar in Materials Chemistry with Qian Chen, Professor of Chemistry and Racheff Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
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The goal of the Chen Group’s research is to understand the organization of complex materials and biological systems in space and time. The specific systems and the associated relevance they concern are wide-ranging and ever-expanding, from ion-oxide intercalation in batteries, crumpled polymer films for water filtration, phase-changing nanoparticle ensembles as adaptive devices, ion channels gating cells, to amyloid fibril prevention for curing disease. These efforts, despite the remoteness of topics, are all unified by one common framework: deciphering fundamental rules of organization from “seeing is believing”, to resolve the dynamics of the constitutes. The implementation of this framework draws on our unique expertise in direct in-situ imaging, particularly our efforts on the groundbreaking liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) that resolves the structure and dynamics of nanoscale entities in a suspending media. Such experiment data have been previously elusive; thus, they have the sheer power to fill critical gaps in condensed matter physics, materials science, therapeutics and biophysics, when coupled with the toolkit and concepts in deep learning, mathematics, and statistical mechanics.
More information on Prof. Chen’s research can be found here: https://chenlab.matse.illinois.edu/
Faculty Host: Prof. Hailiang Wang