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SUMMARY:Evaporative Self-Assembly as a Powerful Tool for Creating Function
 al Superstructures
DTSTART:20150511T131500
DTEND:20150511T141500
DTSTAMP:20260509T181036Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Eugene R. Zubarev\, Department of Chemistry and Department of 
 Materials Science and NanoEngineering\, Rice University Houston\nSpontaneo
 us assembly of colloidal nanostructures is often viewed as a bottom-up alt
 ernative to lithographic techniques when it comes to creating materials wi
 th novel collective properties. The intensive research in the past 10-15 y
 ears has brought numerous examples of functional superlattices\, 3D colloi
 dal crystals\, and designed patterns of nanostructures.  However\, the ma
 jority of self-assembly methods suffer from poor reproducibility and limit
 ed scale\, which often precludes the formation of macroscopically large st
 ructures and functional devices.  This presentation will focus on the eva
 porative self-assembly of anisotropic gold nanocrystals and the underlying
  mechanisms of their colloidal crystallization. In addition\, template-ass
 isted evaporative assembly of nanowires\, polymers\, and collagen fibers i
 nto macroscopically-large hexagonal patterns will be discussed.\nBio: Euge
 ne Zubarev received his PhD in chemistry from Russian Academy of Sciences 
 in 1997. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in 
 the group of Samuel Stupp before starting his independent carrier in 2002 
 at Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science an
 d Engineering. He moved to Rice University in 2005 where he is currently a
 n Associate Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and NanoEngineeri
 ng. His research interests include synthesis of inorganic nanocrystals\, a
 mphiphilic block copolymers\, molecular self-assembly\, and biomedical app
 lications of nanomaterials.
LOCATION:MXF 1 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%201
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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