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Michael J. Therien

William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Box 90346, Durham, NC 27708-0346
5330 French Family Science Cen, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Contributed Presentation: (Prof. Jorge Santiago-Avilles) SingleWall Carbon Nanotube/Poly(p-Napthaleneethynylene) Composites As Electrode Materials For Supercapacitor Applications · November 25, 2008 Lecture 6th Ibero-American Congress on Sensors (IBERSENSOR 08), Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Nanoengineering of Advanced Optical Materials · November 20, 2008 Lecture University of Hasselt, Hasselt, BELGIUM
Contributed Presentation: (Ms. Dahlia Levine) Fully Bioresorbable Polymeric Vesicles for Therapeutic Applications · November 18, 2008 Lecture 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineer’s Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Organic Electronic Materials · November 6, 2008 Lecture University of Hasselt, Hasselt, BELGIUM
Nanoengineering of Advanced Optical Materials · October 20, 2008 Lecture University of Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Mariem Rosario-Canales) Evaluation of Composite Electronic Materials Based upon Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes and Highly Charged Poly(arylenethynylene)s for Supercapacitor Applications · October 14, 2008 Lecture 214th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii
In Vitro Diagnostics and In Vivo Optical Imaging Enabled by Brightly Emissive Soft- Matter Nanoscale Vesicles · September 19, 2008 Lecture University of Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM
Contributed Presentation: (Ms. Natalie Christian) Polymersomes: Versatile Vesicles for Imaging and Drug Delivery · September 12, 2008 Lecture 2008 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
Contributed Presentation: (Prof. J.K. Blasie) Bio-Inspired Artificial Peptides Incorporating Novel Non-Biological Cofactors with Designed Functionalities for Device Applications · August 19, 2008 Lecture 236th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Paul Frail) Charge Transport Properties of Solution-Processable (Porphinato)zinc(II) Ethynylenes · August 19, 2008 Lecture 236th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Engineering of Intensely Absorbing, Long-Lived Excited-States in Conjugated Oligo(porphinato)zinc-(polypyridyl)metal Complexes · August 18, 2008 Lecture 236th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contributed Presentation: (Prof. Dawn Bonnell) Orientational Order and Hyperpolarizability of the Nonlinear Optical Chromophore Ru- PZn Incorporated into Amphiphilic 4-Helix Bundle Peptide Monolayers · August 18, 2008 Lecture 236th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Guizhi Li) Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Biodegradable Poly(ethylene oxide)-b-Polycaprolactone (PEO-b-PCL) Diblock Copolymers · June 4, 2008 Lecture 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Fundamental Studies of Charge Migration and Delocalization Relevant to Solar Energy Conversion · June 4, 2008 Lecture Thirtieth Department of Energy Solar Photochemistry Research Conference, Wintergreen, Virginia
Coupled-Oscillator Photophysics and the Elaboration of Chromophores with Exceptional Molecular Hyperpolarizabilities and 2-Photon Absorptive Cross-Sections · April 17, 2008 Lecture Center for Advanced Laser Spectroscopy and Microscopy, University of Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM
In Vivo Optical Imaging Enabled by Soft-Matter Analogues of the Quantum Dots · April 14, 2008 Lecture Department of Chemistry, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Yangjun Xing) Measurement of Single Molecule Conductivity of Conjugated Organic Oligomers with Conjugated Thiol Linkers · April 9, 2008 Lecture 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
Coupled-Oscillator Photophysics and the Elaboration of Chromophores with Exceptional Molecular Hyperpolarizabilities and 2-Photon Absorptive Cross-Sections · April 8, 2008 Lecture 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Tae-Hong Park) “Modulation of Interfacial Electronic Coupling Between (Porphinato)metal Complexes and Gold Nanoparticles via Carbodithioate and Thiol linkers · April 8, 2008 Lecture 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Dawn Bonnell) Photoexcited Conductance Measurements of Novel Porphyrin-Chromophore Molecular Assemblies · April 7, 2008 Lecture 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Samia Zrig) Synthesis, Optical, Electrochemical, Electronic Structural and Transient Optical Properties of Low Band Gap Polymers Featuring Substantial Quinoidal Character · March 27, 2008 Lecture Spring 2008 Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, California
Contributed Presentation: (Dr. Mariem Rosario-Canales) Evaluation of Composite Electronic Materials Based upon Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes and Highly Charged Poly(arylenethynylene)s for Supercapacitor Applications · March 26, 2008 Lecture Spring 2008 Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, California
Targetting Nanoscale NIR-Emissive Polymersomes for In Vitro Diagnostic Applications · March 17, 2008 Lecture Zeus Scientific, Rariton, New Jersey
“Polarizable and Hyperpolarizable Chromophores for Pulsed-Power Capacitors · March 4, 2008 Lecture Office of Naval Research 2008 Capacitor Program Review, Hilton Head, South Carolina

Service to the Profession


Selection Committee - 2014 Beckman Young Investigator Program · May 2014 Editorial Activities
Review Committee - 2013 Beckman Young Investigator Program · December 2012 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - Scientific Foundation Ireland · October 2012 Editorial Activities
Selection Committee - 2012 Beckman Young Investigator Program · March 2012 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - United States Department of Energy, Nanotechnology Center, Oak Ridge · December 2009 Editorial Activities
Chair - ARPA-E Solar Energy Review Panel · September 2009 Editorial Activities
Review Committee, 2009 Beckman Young Investigator Program · December 2008 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - United States Department of Energy, Nanotechnology Center, Sandia/Los Alamos · April 2007 Editorial Activities
Review Committee - 2007 Beckman Young Investigator Program · December 2006 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - United States Department of Energy, Nanotechnology Center, Oak Ridge · December 2006 Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Member - NIH Special Emphasis Study Section, Polymers and Probes · October 2006 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory · July 2006 Editorial Activities
External Review Panel Member - Brookhaven National Laboratory · July 2006 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) · 2006 Editorial Activities
Review Committee - 2006 Beckman Young Investigator Program · December 2005 Editorial Activities
External Reviewer - United States Department of Energy Nanotechnology Centers · July 2005 Editorial Activities
Review Panel Member - 2005 U. S. Department of Energy Basic Research for Hydrogen Fuel Initiative · February 2005 Editorial Activities
Review Committee - 2005 Beckman Young Investigator Program · December 2004 Editorial Activities
External Review Panel Member - Brookhaven National Laboratory · November 2004 Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Member - NIH Metallobiochemistry Study Section · June 2004 Editorial Activities
External Review Panel Member - Argonne National Laboratory · December 2003 Editorial Activities
Review Committee - 2004 Beckman Young Investigator Program · December 2003 Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Member - NIH Metallobiochemistry Study Section · February 2003 Editorial Activities
Panel Member - National Academy of Sciences Workshop Novel Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Management · February 2003 Event Attendance
External Reviewer - Nanotechnology Center Initiative · April 2002 Editorial Activities United States Department of Energy,
External Reviewer - Nanotechnology Center Initiative · April 2001 Editorial Activities United States Department of Energy,
External Reviewer - Photochemical and Radiation Chemistry Sciences Program · October 1999 Editorial Activities Brookhaven National Laboratory,