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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Dynamic polymer networks for engineered livin
 g materials
DTSTART:20241014T131500
DTEND:20241014T141500
DTSTAMP:20260921T211552Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mark Tibbitt\, ETHZ\nPolymer materials provide solutions
  to many pressing biomedical\, manufacturing\, and environmental challenge
 s. However\, traditional polymer materials have a limited capacity for rea
 rrangement\, presenting difficulties in their processing\, use\, and recyc
 ling. Engineering reversible interactions within polymer networks enables 
 the formation of dynamic and reconfigurable materials\, opening new opport
 unities for use and re-use of polymer networks. In this talk\, we will pre
 sent fundamental insight and applications of dynamic polymer networks with
  an emphasis on their utility in biomedical applications. We provide a fra
 mework for engineering dynamic macromolecular systems by linking molecular
  behavior at the reversible junctions to macroscopic properties using mode
 ling\, spectroscopy\, and mechanical characterization. We then present how
  we use this knowledge to design dynamic biomaterials for scaffolds in pho
 tosynthetic living materials for cyanobacteria-based carbon sequestration.
 \n\nBio: Prof. Mark Tibbitt is an Associate Professor of Macromolecular En
 gineering at ETH Zurich\, where he has been on the faculty since June 2017
 . Previously\, he was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof
 . Robert Langer in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at t
 he Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.A. in Integrat
 ed Science and Mathematics from Northwestern University\, and his Ph.D. in
  Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder under the supe
 rvision of Prof. Kristi S. Anseth. His research integrates concepts from c
 hemical engineering\, synthetic chemistry\, materials science\, and biolog
 y to rationally design and assemble soft matter for biomedical application
 s.\n 
LOCATION:MXF 1 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%201
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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