About the Speaker:

Education:

• Postdoc: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2011-2014, doing research in the field of mechanically driven chemical reactions (mechanochemistry)
• Ph.D.: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2007-2011, on the synthesis of bimetallic complexes and the physical organic chemistry of olefin-metathesis pre-catalysts.

Awards:

• 2016 Schulich Teaching Award
• 2014 Henry Taub LIST Award
• 2010 The Ruth and Milton Orchin Prize
• 2010 The Human and Irene Kreitman Prize

Research:

The Dissendruck Research Group studies:

• New mechanically driven chemical transformations – we design molecules that, when incorporated into polymers, undergo productive chemical reactions under stress.
• Design of polymer architectures that conduct mechanical stress to specific points in the polymer chains, creating new materials that are more resistant or susceptible to mechanical stress.
• Design of new mechanoresponsive materials, utilizing mechanically driven chemical transformations.
• The use of organic chemistry to create new polymer architectures that react to physicochemical stimuli.
• The effect of polymer chemistry and architecture on the mechanical properties of materials, i.e., relation between nano (chemistry) and macro (mechanics).
• Chemistry of quaternary ammonium salts – chemical stability, chiral properties, catalysis.

About the Seminar:

Title:

Productive chemistry adapted from undesirable materials degradation