Symposium program

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