Symposium program
All times given in Mountain Time
All times given in Mountain Time
Day 1 Friday, July 25, 2025
Reception and Poster Session
Location: S.J. Quinney College of Law Building, Level 1 Atrium
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Badge Pick-Up Set-Up
03:00 PM - 5:00 PM Reception Poster Session
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Social Hour
Day 2 Saturday, July 26, 2025
Session One, Chair: Hang Ren
Location: HEB 2004, Henry Eyring Chemistry Building
08:30 AM - 08:55 AM Badge Pick-up Coffee, Tea, Pastries
08:55 AM - 9:00 AM Opening Remarks, Long Luo, The University of Utah
09:00 AM - 09:25 AM Adventures of Horseshoe Henry, Keith Stevenson
09:25 AM - 09:50 AM Magnetic Control of DNA Translocation Through a Nanopore, Eric Ervin, Electronic BioSciences
09:50 AM - 10:15 AM From Structure to Function: Harnessing DNA Dynamics to Enhanced Cancer Biomarker Detection, Cherie Tan, Tianjin University
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM COFFEE BREAK
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM Determination of Enantiomeric Excess in Confined Aprotic Solvent, Robert Johnson, University College Dublin
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM Thermodynamics of Transition Metal Electrodeposition in Concentrated Aqueous Electrolytes: Experiments, Theory, and Implications Tao Gao, University of Utah
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM Multi-resolved Imaging of Electrochemical Interfaces, Rui Hao, Southern Universtiy of Science and Technology
12:00 PM- 01:15 PM Lunch
Location: Chemistry Building Atrium, 2nd floor HEB
Session Two, Chair: Tao Gao
Location: HEB 2004, Henry Eyring Chemistry Building
01:20 PM - 01:45 PM Electric Nucleophilic Substitution of Alcohols Enabled by a P(V/III) Redox Couple, Qilei Zhu, The University of Utah
01:45 PM - 2:10 PM Microscale Membrane Water Electrolyzers to Probe Operando Interfacial Structure, Andrew Pendergast, University of California, Berkeley
02:10 PM - 02:35 PM Composition-Driven Electrocatalysis: High-Entropy Perovskites for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Esteban Gadea, The University of Utah
02:35 PM - 02:50 PM COFFEE BREAK
02:50 PM - 03:15 PM Interface Engineering in Electrode Materials for Metal Ion Batteries, Claire Xiong, Boise State University
03:15 PM - 03:40 PM Multiscale Modeling in Electrochemistry, Yue Qi, Brown University
03:40 PM - 04:05 PM Electrochemically Generated Nanobubbles, Valeria Molinero, The University of Utah
04:05 PM - 04:15 PM Closing Remarks, Shelley Minteer, Missouri University of Science and Technology
04:15 PM Group Photo
06:00 PM- 09:00 PM Dinner
Location: S.J. Quinney College of Law Building, Rooms 6619 and 6623