报告人：Prof. De Feyter Steven (KU Leuven - University of Leuven Department of Chemistry)
报告题目：Nanopatterning graphite and graphene: a molecular approach
报告时间：10:30 AM, Oct. 24th (Tuesday)
报告地点：Conference Room B, BLDG 909-1F
Biography
Research
My research interests are nanochemistry and supramolecular chemistry on surfaces. Molecular self-assembly on surfaces is a central theme of my research, with a focus on the relation between structure and function. Recent research activities cover a broad range of topics such as two-dimensional crystal engineering (e.g. formation of nanoporous surfaces, chirality at interfaces), templating, dynamics and reactivity. These studies aim at bringing insight in the fundamental aspects of molecule-substrate interactions and molecular organisation on surfaces, as well as the formation and use of these nanostructured functional surfaces. The liquid-solid interface is a preferred environment to induce self-assembly. Also biomolecular systems (DNA, proteins, their complexes, etc.) are investigated, with a focus on those that are involved in disease related processes. Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy techniques are particularly useful to probe the structural, dynamic, and electronic properties of these surface-confined molecular systems.
Studies
Candidate Chemical Sciences at the KULeuven, Magma cum laude
Licentiate Chemical Sciences at the KULeuven, Summa cum laude
Ph.D. in Chemistry at the KULeuven (promotor: Prof. Frans C. De Schryver)
Topic: “Visualisation of ordering, chirality and reactivity on a molecular scale with scanning tunneling microscopy”.
Career
10/1993-09/1997 Aspirant FWO (PhD student financed by Fund for Scientific Research � Flanders).
10/1997-03/1998 Postdoctoral research fellow of the KU Leuven
03/1998-06/1999 Postdoctoral research fellow and Fulbright fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in the group of Prof. Ahmed Zewail, awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999.
Awards and Grants
2013 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (NANOGRAPH@LSI)
2014 Elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts: Natural Sciences
Contact: Prof. Lifeng Chi