June 2013 – Nano & Cluster Materials Research Group

63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Our lab member, Doruk Ergöçmen (only undergraduate student out of 6 participants selected by TÜBİTAK), is going to represent Turkey in ‘63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting’, which will be organized on June 30th – July 5th 2013 in Lindau, Bayern, Germany.

35 Nobel Laureates have announced to congregate in Lindau to meet the next generation of leading scientists and researchers. 625 undergraduate and postgraduate students from 78 countries have been selected to get the unique chance to participate in the meeting.

The scientific programme, dedicated to the Nobel Prize discipline of chemistry, will comprise lectures, discussion sessions, master classes and panel discussions. Among the main topics are Green Chemistry as well as biochemical processes and structures.

Congrats Doruk! :)

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Artificial ‘superatoms’ for a new periodic table

Could a new periodic table be on the horizon, populated not by conventional elements but by new ‘superatoms’ designed in the lab? This is the intriguing implication of new work by US chemists, who have made structural analogues of simple ionic compounds such as sodium chloride and cadmium iodide by interacting large molecular clusters instead of individual atoms.