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Newsletter November 2010 Santa Clara Valley Section American Chemical Society Volume 32 No. 11 NOVEMBER 2010 NEWSLETTER TOPICS January Dinner Meeting • January Dinner Meeting: Mosher Mosher Award Recipient Award Recipient Plastic Solar Cell with Engineered Interfaces • Chair’s Message Dr. Tobin J. Marks • November Dinner Meeting: Dr. Joe Abstract He received a B.S. degree Francisco, President of American The ability to fabricate from the University of Maryland Chemical Society; Teacher-Scholar molecularly-tailored interfaces in1966 and a Ph.D. from MIT in Award Presentation with nanoscale precision can selec- 1971 in Chemistry. Dr. Marks • About Molecule of the Week tively modulate charge transport has mentored over 100 Ph.D. stu- across hard matter-soft matter dents and nearly as many post- • Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 interfaces, facilitating transport of doctoral fellows. He has been • Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 the “correct charges” while block- chair of the ACS Division of • Next Year is the International Year of ing transport of the “incorrect charges.” Inorganic Chemistry, and he has been Chemistry 2011 This interfacial tailoring can also control active in the Chicago local section. Dr. defect densities at such interfaces and stabi- continued on next page • Welcome to the Santa Clara Valley lize them with respect to physical/thermal Section of ACS decohesion. In this lecture, challenges and • New Members List for October opportunities are illustrated for three specif- January • Some Chocolate Happenings from July ic and related areas of research: 1) charge Dinner Meeting to October transport across hard matter-soft matter interfaces in organic electroluminescent Thursday, January 20, 2011 • Marker Butterflies Date: devices, 2) charge transport across hard Time: 6:00 Social Hour • Speak for Science matter-soft matter interfaces in organic 7:00 Dinner • Highlights from the September 23rd photovoltaic cells, 3) charge transport to 8:00 Presentation Dinner Meeting unconventional electrodes. It will be seen Location: Biltmore Hotel & Suites that rational interface engineering along 2151 Laurelwood Blvd. • From the October 14th Dinner with improved bulk-heterojunction poly- Santa Clara, CA 95054 Meeting mer structures leads to solar power conver- Speaker: Dr. Tobin Marks • Chemployment Abstracts sion efficiencies as high as 5.6% - 7.3%, Northwestern University along with far greater cell durability. “Plastic Solar Cells with Biography Engineered Interfaces” Chair's Message The 2010 Harry and Carol Mosher Cost: $27.00 with a choice of: I hope you had a safe Halloween and award recipient is Dr. Tobin J. Marks. Dr. Pork Marsala or Eggplant Parmesan that there were no problems in your Marks is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor neighborhood. The next major holiday is of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Reservations: www.scvacs.org Thanksgiving which falls this year on Science and Engineering at Northwestern Sally Peters 650-812-4994 November 25. Think about those things University. Among the themes of his Reservations should be made by for which you are thankful. research are synthetic organo-f-element and January 17th stating your name, address, November 15 is a big event for our early-transition metal organometallic chem- company affiliation, number of people in Section. National ACS President Dr. Joe istry, polymer chemistry, materials chemis- party. Watch the web site for more infor- Francisco will be here to present the try, homogeneous and heterogeneous catal- mation. If you are unable to honor your reservation and do not cancel by Teacher-Scholar Award to a chemistry ysis, molecule-based photonic materials, Wednesday, January 19th, you will be faculty member in one of our community superconductivity, metal-organic chemical invoiced following the dinner meeting. colleges. This will be an enjoyable and vapor deposition, and biological aspects of inspirational evening. Plan to attend. transition metal chemistry. Mosher Award, continued from front page Marks has also organized a number of con- identify promising future directions for US and honors from the ACS and other orga- ferences and symposia to help introduce the scientific research. He will be serving as the nizations. We are very pleased to add the scientific community to emerging fields, US team leader (on behalf of ACS office of 2010 Mosher Award to this distinguished and he has been an Associate Editor of the International Activities and NSF Chemistry list. A few of the major ones include the ACS journal, Organometallics. Division) at an upcoming Chemical ACS 2000 ACS Cotton Medal; 2001 ACS Dr. Marks has served on the NAS-NRC Sciences and Society Symposium on Willard Gibbs Medal; 2001 ACS Linus International Benchmarking committee to Sustainable materials involving the US, Pauling Medal; 2002 American Institute of evaluate the health of the US chemical UK, German, Japanese and Chinese Chemists Gold Medal; 2003 German research, and the DOE Basic Energy Grand Chemical societies Chemical Society Karl Ziegler Prize; 2004 Research Challenges Committee to help Dr. Marks has received multiple awards Royal Society of Chemistry Frankland Medal, and the 2005 ACS Bailar Medal. He received the 2008 Spanish Principe de Asturias Prize for Scientific Research; the Reminder November Dinner Meeting Reminder 2009 N. American Catalysis Society Pines The Chemical Enterprise: Thinking and Acting Globally; Award; the 2009 Taylor Materials Research Award from Pennsylvania State University; 2010 Teacher-Scholar Award Presentation the 2009 Von Hippel Award from the Dr. Joseph Francisco, President of American Chemical Society Materials Research Society; the 2010 ACS Joseph S. Francisco com- of Advanced Studies at the Nichols Medal; the 2010 Distinguished pleted his undergraduate stud- University of Bologna, Italy. Affiliated Professor Award and Wilhelm ies in Chemistry at the He has been appointed to and Manchot Prize, Technical University of University of Texas at Austin served on committees for Munich; and the 2011 Schulich Prize from with honors, and he received the National Research Council, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics National Science Foundation, at the Massachusetts Institute American Chemical Society, of Technology in 1983. Dr. and the National Aeronautics Francisco spent 1983-1985 as a Research and Space Administration. Fellow at Cambridge University in England, and following that he returned About Molecule to MIT as a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow. November of the Week He has been an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University, and a Visiting Dinner Meeting Associate in Planetary Science at the Date: MONDAY, November 15, 2010 California Institute of Technology. He Time: 6:00 Social Hour has been a professor at Purdue University 7:00 Dinner since 1986. 8:00 Presentation He served as President for the Location: Biltmore Hotel & Suites National Organization for the 2151 Laurelwood Blvd. Professional Advancement of Black Santa Clara, CA 95054 Dr. Joseph Francisco, President, Chemists and Chemical Engineers Speaker: Get the ACS MOTW iPhone App! (NOBCChE) from 2005-2007. In 2008 American Chemical Society he was elected into the ACS presidential The Chemical Enterprise: Molecule of the Week has been a cycle, and he is currently President of the Thinking and Acting popular feature on this site since 2001. Globally; Teacher-Scholar American Chemical Society. Many molecules are suggested by chem- Award Presentation He has published over 400 peer-re- ists and chemistry enthusiasts. Every $27.00 with a choice of: viewed publications in the fields of atmo- Cost: structure is reviewed by a scientist and Filet of Salmon or Pasta Primavera spheric chemistry, chemical kinetics, displayed in 3-D and flat images with a www.scvacs.org quantum chemistry, laser photochemistry Reservations: brief description. Sally Peters 650-812-4994 and spectroscopy. Each week’s molecule also links to a Professor Francisco has received Reservations should be made by sample record from the CAS REGISTRY, November 10th stating your name, numerous national and international which is searched using SciFinder. Each address, company affiliation, number of honors for his academic accomplish record displays the registry number, index people in party. Watch the web site for name and synonyms, bibliographic infor- ments. He was recently awarded an more information. If you are unable to Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior mation, and more. Just search ACS honor your reservation and do not cancel MOTW in the App Store, its FREE!!! Scientist Award by the German by Thursday, November 11, you will be government, as well as being appointed invoiced following the dinner meeting. a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 By Bethany Halford (C&E News) Nobel Laureates garner medals minted cal industry.” “The key word here is versatility,” said in gold, but it was work with another noble Although chemistry oddsmakers had Negishi, when describing his chemistry to metal—palladium—that earned three been betting that Pd-catalyzed cross-cou- reporters during an early-morning phone chemists the big prize this year. Richard F. pling chemistry would earn the Nobel Prize call on the day of the announcement. “One Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki for many years, Heck, 79, tells C&EN that of our dreams is to be able to synthesize any were jointly awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize his win was “totally unexpected.” Retired organic compound of importance, whether