报告题目：A Chemical Story of Impurities
报告人：Xin Su, Senior Associate Editor,
Angewandte Chemie,Batteries & Supercaps
时间：2019年7月18日(星期四)下午16:30
地点：材料馆A323
Biography:
Xin Su received his B.Sc. in chemistry from Nankai University, China, in 2009. He then moved to the USA and conducted graduate research on hydrazone-based molecular switches and functional materials at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, where he received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 2013. Following postdoctoral training at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, he worked as an associate editor for Wiley's materials science journals includingAdvanced Materialsin Hoboken, NJ, USA, from 2015 to 2017. After spending a year at SpringerNature as a senior editor ofNature Chemistry, Xin joined the editorial team ofAngewandte Chemiein 2018.
Abstract:
Impurity is by no means the most pleasant word one can find in a dictionary. As a discipline that relies on pure specimens to establish fundamental principles, mechanisms, and standards, chemistry does not particularly welcome impurities either. After all, chemistry develops over time as various purification techniques evolve. However, impurities have been playing an important role, occasionally indispensable, in advancing chemistry, technology, and even everyone’s everyday life. This presentation details selected intertwining stories between impurities and ever-curious human beings, including the multi-faced role of impurities in several historical moments of chemical discovery and the potential pitfalls they can bring.
