Division/Committee: [COLL: Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry]

Nanomaterials play a critical role in future breakthrough technologies ranging from energy conversion to bioimaging to quantum computing. A major challenge still facing our community is the controlled bottom-up design of such materials with atomic precision and exact composition as well as their directed self-assembly into atomically defined extended structures. Addressing these challenges requires a cross-cutting approach bridging multiple length scales and areas of chemical science, including coordination, cluster, colloidal, crystal, and computational chemistry. In this symposium, we will bring together established experts and emerging young scientists in atomically precise nanomaterials to highlight the state-of-the-art, challenges, and opportunities in the field. The symposium will cover nanomaterials with different degrees of precision, including metal, semiconductor, and magnetic nanoclusters with atomically defined structures, magic-sized clusters with precise properties, self-assembled superlattices with atomic coherence, atomically precise catalysis, etc. Specifically, the symposium will focus on how the atomically defined nature of nanomaterials facilitates the understanding of (i) synthetic pathways from clusters to colloids, (ii) the atomic structures of cores, surfaces, and assemblies of nanomaterials, and (iii) their properties and applications in optical, electronic, spin, catalytical, and biological areas.

Sergei Ivanov

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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