Division/Committee: [PHYS: Division of Physical Chemistry]

The deterministic design of chemical properties remains one of the major goals of the chemistry and materials communities. While conventional approaches to tailoring chemical phenomena (organic chemistry protection/deprotection, ligand substitution, assembling heterogeneous systems, incorporation of metal centers to tune electronic and spin levels, etc.) has been so successful as to transform human life, there remains tremendous interest and opportunity in building chemical systems from physical interactions and to define fundamental rules governing the use of physical, optical, magnetic, and other modal couplings that can be leveraged to enhance technologies in catalysis, photo-induced chemical transformations, energy storage, and information processing. The organizers of this symposium intend to bring together researchers from different, but complementary, sub-fields of physical chemistry who are attempting to identify and apply novel constituents of matter, and their interactions, to form material systems with desired chemical properties. By presenting findings where researchers use nanoparticles, metal-centered clusters, meta-atoms, proteins, and hybrid organic-inorganic micro-structures to form new materials systems that possess distinct chemistries, the organizers intend to build bridges between these sub-fields towards the development of more fundamental rules connecting physical interactions to chemical properties. This development would then help inform more refined exploration of ways in which the physical principles of material synthesis can be used to control chemical phenomena.

Adam Dunkelberger

US Naval Research Laboratory

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