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SUMMARY:Cancelled event - IMX Seminar Series - Non-covalent synthesis of f
 unctional supramolecular systems and materials
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Bert Meijer\, Eindhoven University of Technology\, The N
 etherlands\nThe intriguing prospects of molecular electronics\, nanotechno
 logy\, biomaterials\, and the aim to close the gap between synthetic and b
 iological molecular systems are important ingredients to study the coopera
 tive action of molecules in the assembly towards functional supramolecular
  materials and systems. The design and synthesis of well-defined supramole
 cular architectures requires a balanced choice between covalent and non-co
 valent synthesis of the different fragments. For synthetic chemists\, the 
 non-covalent synthesis of these supramolecular architectures is regarded a
 s one of the most challenging objectives in science: How far can we push c
 hemical self-assembly and can we get control over the kinetic instabilitie
 s of the non-covalent architectures made? Moreover the increasing number o
 f different components in the assembly processes increases the complexity 
 of the system\, as many competing events occur and pathway selection is ne
 eded. Mastering this complexity with a combination of experiments and simu
 lations is a prerequisite to achieve the challenges set in creating functi
 onal materials and systems. In the lecture we illustrate our approach usin
 g a number of examples out of our own laboratories\, with the aim to come 
 to new strategies for multi-step non-covalent synthesis of functional supr
 amolecular materials and systems.\nBio: E.W. “Bert” Meijer is Distingu
 ished University Professor in the Molecular Sciences\, Professor of Organi
 c Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology and co-director of t
 he Institute for Complex Molecular Systems. After receiving his PhD degree
  at the University of Groningen with Hans Wynberg\, he worked for 10 years
  in industry (Philips and DSM). In 1991 he was appointed in Eindhoven\, wh
 ile in the meantime he has held part-time positions in Nijmegen\, Mainz\, 
 and Santa Barbara\, CA. Bert Meijer is a member of many editorial advisory
  boards\, including Advanced Materials and the Journal of the American Che
 mical Society. Bert Meijer has received a number of awards\, including the
  Spinoza Award in 2001\, the ACS Award for Polymer Chemistry in 2006\, the
  AkzoNobel Science Award 2010\, the International Award of the Society of 
 Polymer Science Japan in 2011\, the Cope Scholar Award of the ACS in 2012\
 , the Prelog Medal in 2014\, the Nagoya Gold Medal in 2017 and the Chirali
 ty Medal in 2018. He is a member of a number of academies and societies\, 
 including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science\, where he is appointed
  to Academy Professor in 2014.
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