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Princeton ACS Section Dinner Meeting & Year-End Celebration
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
our
guest speaker will be
Professor Steven L. Bernasek
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
&
Princeton ACS Section 2012 Chair
“Self-assembly of Organic
Monolayers:
Chiral Structures,
Nanopatterns, and Energetics”
Social mixer, 5:30 pm in Frick Laboratory, Taylor Commons,
Princeton Univ. Presentation, 6:30 pm in the Auditorium
followed by dinner in Taylor Commons.
Abstract
Large organic molecules sometimes self assemble into highly
ordered monolayer structures at the liquid-solid interface.
These monolayer structures, formed primarily on the highly
ordered pyrolytic graphite surface from organic solution,
have been examined with atomic resolution scanning tunneling
microscopy. We will describe some of our recent studies in
this area, showing examples of the formation of chiral
monolayers, structures with controllable nanometer scale
dimensions, and our efforts to understand the energetics
that control the formation of these structures.
Implications for questions of molecular evolution, the
formation of molecular dimension sensors and devices, and
efforts towards the rational design of nanopatterned
surfaces will be discussed.
Biography
Steven L. Bernasek is Professor of Chemistry at Princeton
University. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Kansas
State University in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Physical
Chemistry from the University of California-Berkeley in
1975. He has been at Princeton since July 1975. Bernasek’s
research interests are in the general area of surface
chemical physics, particularly the dynamics of reactions on
solid surfaces. He has published over 200 papers, has
co-edited four books, and is the author of the monograph
Heterogeneous Reaction Dynamics. He has advised over
forty-five Ph.D. students, thirty postdoctoral associates,
and thirty senior thesis students in his laboratory. He has
served as Director of Graduate Studies in Chemistry, and as
Associate Chair. He is a freshman/sophomore advisor and
Fellow at Rockefeller College, serves on the undergraduate
program committee of the Princeton Environmental Institute,
and the executive committee of the Program in Plasma Science
and Technology. He was awarded the ACS Exxon Award in Solid
State Chemistry in 1981, and received the ACS Arthur W.
Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement
of Surface Chemistry in 2006. He is an elected Fellow of
the AAAS and the American Vacuum Society.
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