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SUMMARY:From drops to materials
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Esther Amstad\nNature produces soft functional materials
  displaying exceptional mechanical properties. We are far from synthesizin
 g soft synthetic analogues possessing a similar set of functionality and m
 echanical properties. This discrepancy in properties is closely related to
  the degree of compositional and structural control which is much higher i
 n natural soft materials. The level of compositional and structural contro
 l depends on the processing of these materials. Inspired by the fabricatio
 n of natural soft materials\, my group introduces drop-based processes to 
 fabricate granular materials possessing well-defined microstructures and o
 ptionally abruptly changing compositions. In this talk\, I will demonstrat
 e how we 3D print or cast functional cm-sized granular load-bearing soft m
 aterials starting from compartmentalized reagents. Inspired by the mineral
 ization of certain soft natural scaffolds\, I will discuss possibilities t
 o transform synthetic soft materials into hard and tough composites with c
 ompositions and mechanical properties that are similar to some of the natu
 ral counterparts.\n\nBio: Esther Amstad studied material science at ETH in
  Zurich where she also carried out her PhD thesis on the steric stabilizat
 ion of iron oxide nanoparticles. She performed a Postdoc at Harvard Univer
 sity where she developed microfluidic devices for example to produce calib
 rated emulsion drops at high throughputs. In 2014\, she joined the materia
 l science institute of EPFL as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the i
 nstitute of Materials where she got promoted to an Associate Professor in 
 2021. She heads the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL) that introduces drop-
 based processes to fabricate functional load-bearing granular materials.\n
  
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