T_cSUH Bi-Weekly Seminars

Friday, October 30, 2009

Room: 102, University of Houston Science Center

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

This talk summarizes our progress on the development of the chemistry for surface modifcation of silicon-based substrates, including single crystal silicon and silicon carbide. We demonstrate a versatile monolayer platform on silicon substrates that strongly resist the non-specifc interactions with proteins and allow functionalization with a wide variety of biomolecules for specifc binding of target molecules.

Professor Chengzhi Cai received his B.Sc. in Chemistry and his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1996, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH-Zurich Institute of Quantum Electronics, 1996-1999. He was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston, 2000-2006, and has been an Associate Professor of Chemistry at UH since 2006. Professor Cai's research interests include organic thin flms, nano-patterning, AFM, organic synthesis, and surface reactions.