Doctoral thesis defense Aalto CHEM 29.3.2019: M.Sc. Salla Jaatinen

20.03.2019

https://www.aalto.fi/events/defence-of-dissertation-in-the-field-of-chemical-engineering-msctech-salla-jaatinen

M.Sc.(Tech.) Salla Jaatinen will defend the dissertation “Carbon Catalysts in Biofuel Production: from Furfural to 2-Methylfuran” on 29 March 2019 at 12 in Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, lecture hall Ke2, Kemistintie 1, Espoo.

Opponent: Professor Edd Blekkan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Supervisor: Professor Riikka Puurunen, Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Press release: https://www.aalto.fi/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/2019-03/press_release_salla_jaatinen.pdf

Thesis link: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/37049 read more >>

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Prof. Puurunen invited tutorial at ALD for Industry Berlin 2019

19.03.2019

On March 19, 2019, I gave an invited tutorial at the ALD for Industry event by … In an Open Teaching atmosphere, I created a Panopto record of the talk and the talk is shared openly.

The publication of the slides in SlideShare & video in Youtube waited for the publication of the review article: Conformality in atomic layer deposition: Current status overview of analysis and modelling, by Cremers, Puurunen & Dendooven, Applied Physics Reviews 6, 021302 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5060967.

Update notes:

  • Links to SlideShare & Youtube updated 6.4.2019
  • Link to Applied Physics Reviews article updated 8.4.2019

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Lecture capture: Adsorption-controlled catalyst preparation by ALD

25.02.2019

Lecture capture shared in an Open Teaching way: CHEM-E1130 Catalysis course, by Prof. Riikka Puurunen: Adsorption-controlled catalyst preparation by ALD (atomic layer deposition).

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Post updated 26.2.2019: links to Youtube videos added

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Teaching partner: Teaching trial with lightboard (Langmuir isotherm)

10.01.2019

Being on tenure track at Aalto University, I need to follow pedagogical studies – which is great! One of the on-going activities is “teaching partner” with my own pedagogical mentor. I get to do trials with teaching – these are planned with justification, made, and afterwards, reflected. A perfect learning cycle.

Today, I made the first such trial, and went through the derivation of the Langmuir adsorption isotherm (single-site adsorption) with the lightboard system that has been built at Aalto Studios. Here, we are following the Nothwestern University model. Scientific articles have been written on the technique, e.g., Journal of Chemical Education 2017 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00004.

The result is openly shared through the Panopto platform, screen capture below and link here: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2d56ca40-7ab8-401e-80e9-a9d100a13c1d. The video is also available in Youtube. This was my first trial and I am happy with the outcome, even though not everything went quite as planned.. watch yourself to know what I mean :). (It was all captured in just one recording, without too much planning, and a bit of roughness is fine in the video, I think.) Warmest thanks to Aalto Studios and Kalle Kataila for making this possible and for providing the video extremely fast. Description of the video, which is included in the Panopto recording, is copied below.

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Season’s Greetings from Aalto Catalysis research group

17.12.2018

Dear colleagues, collaborators, emeriti, potential future colleagues and collaborators, others,

Year 2018 approaches its end, and it is a good time to look back on the activities of our group in 2018.

Publication-wise, the Aalto Catalysis research group has had a good year. In total ten publications from the current group members and related earlier research at Aalto are out, listed at the end of this email. At the moment of writing this, five articles are “in the pipeline”, to be published in 2019 after peer review is finished (one of them shared in ChemRxiv). The group members have additionally given several contributed/invited/keynote talks and poster presentations at various national and international conferences.

Open Science is a current trend mentioned also in the recent report State of Scientific Research in Finland 2018. Chemical engineering as a field is not considered really open, and surely, our field could benefit from more openness. Contributions of the Catalysis group to Open Science so far have been (i) the participation in and coordination of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA, http://vph-ald.com) Open Science effort; (ii) including broader background info in our newest publications, and (iii) sharing manuscript preprints in ChemRxiv and ECSarXiv. Maybe in 2019, we’ll create our first open dataset?  read more >>

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STG podcasts as source of information on Atomic Layer Deposition

3.12.2018

Aalto CHEM doctoral student Giovanni Marin with colleagues has set up a professional-looking podcast STG Podcasts, where STG refers to “Science, Technology and Gaming”. There are several episodes already where scientists working with Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) have been interviewed. The most recent episode is with Prof Seán Barry recorded on November 27, 2018 (see also the lecture info), and there have been earlier ones of Prof. Christophe Detavernier, Dr. Simon Elliott, Dr. Esko from Picosun, and Prof. Gregory Parsons. I warmly recommend listening to these! You find STG Podcasts for example in Twitter.

Giovanni Marin and Seán Barry in the Aalto selfservice studio, for STG podcast. Photo: Riikka Puurunen 2018.

 

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Feedback from the 3rd Young Scientist Forum on Catalysis

30.11.2018

The feedback questionnaire related to FYSFC2018 event by the Finnish Catalysis Society, shared in Katse 1/2018 (link) with the goal to develop the event further for next year, received fifteen responses. Warmest thanks for everyone who responded! Summary of the feedback is shown below and to be shared in Katse 2/2018.

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Visiting lecture Prof Seán Barry, Precursors and Atomic Layer Deposition of Gold Metal, Nov 27

23.11.2018

The lecture will be on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, in lecture hall Ke 2 (Chemistry building, Kemistintie 1), at 10:00-11:00. Welcome!

Prof Barry has been working with CVD and ALD reactant synthesis for well over a decade, and has been visiting labs such as Harvard University (Prof Roy Gordon) and University of Helsinki (Professors Leskelä and Mikko Ritala). Laboratory website link: https://carleton.ca/barrylab/

Title: “Precursors and Atomic Layer Deposition of Gold Metal”  read more >>

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Aalto CHEM Career Forum – Fri Dec 14

21.11.2018

Great to notice that a CHEM Career Forum will be again organized to allow recruiting and networking of students in the field of chemical technology. The event will be organized in Dipoli on Friday 14 December 2018. I see that many companies will be present working e.g. with renewable energy solutions and with atomic layer deposition (ALD). Also, I have heard that there might be a poster about the Catalysis research group there…

More info: https://www.aalto.fi/school-of-chemical-engineering/chem-career-forum

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OpenTeaching : Introductory lecture on atomic layer deposition shared

9.11.2018

Panopto is a great tool that we have available at Aalto University for making lecture capture.

Yesterday, I gave my first introductory lecture on atomic layer deposition (ALD) in general as a professor at Aalto University. I recorded the lecture with my own laptop, using one of the Panopto sets available since half a year or so at the School of Chemical Engineering.

The lecture capture worked out fine and the lecture can now be watched in Panopto: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bd0aee67-7ca5-4973-8216-a99200e888b1, as well as Youtube: https://youtu.be/i-m52yTdZB0. The slides are available to view separately in SlideShare: https://pt.slideshare.net/RiikkaPuurunen/introduction-to-atomic-layer-deposition-ald-principles-applications-future. A discussion thread was started in LinkedIn ALD – Atomic layer Deposition group (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6466591287486214144).

Sharing teaching openly like this – in an OpenTeaching manner – is the first trial for me. Let us see what follows from it!

Post edited:

  • on 13.11.2018: Youtube link added.
  • on 19.11.2018: LinkedIn group ALD – Atomic Layer Deposition, discussion thread link added

 

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