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SUMMARY:Growing sustainable materials – Modulating the bottom-up assembl
 y of bio-based building blocks
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Blaise Tardy\, Aalto University\, Finland\nThe wide-scaled
  use of materials combining a short service-life and poor end-of-life is a
  growing problem that requires imminent solution. The most notorious examp
 le is single use synthetic packages\, where increasingly stringent policie
 s and customer demands further drives the need for the development of sust
 ainable materials. Alongside advances in colloidal science\, bio-based col
 loids have emerged as promising building blocks for the fabrication of sus
 tainable materials. For instance\, the nano-scaled crystals of cellulose a
 re stronger than steel\, they can easily reintegrate the ecosphere\, and t
 heir biosynthesis involve a high inherent carbon capture. In this talk\, t
 he dynamics of consolidation of bio-based colloids into multi-scaled mater
 ials are highlighted across various assembly configurations. For each conf
 iguration\, new classes of materials and the replacement of hazardous and 
 environmentally unfriendly counterparts can be envisioned. Importantly\, i
 nsights into the development of self-cohesion and interfacial adhesion of 
 biopolymers are put forward as tools to further enable their engineering. 
 This is expected to significantly facilitate the implementation of such bi
 o-based materials in industries that are reconverting their manufacturing 
 towards more sustainable materials as well as the growing bio-based indust
 ries.\n\nBio: After graduating from EPFL (Bioengineering\, 2009)\, Blaise 
 Tardy obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from The
  University of Melbourne\, Australia\, with Frank Caruso (2015). He is cur
 rently a research fellow in the team of Orlando Rojas at the Department of
  Bioproducts and Biosystems\, Aalto University\, Finland. His research int
 erests include interfacial assembly and the formation of structured materi
 als from nano- and microparticles obtained from renewable sources. His res
 earch aims to establish the physico-chemical principles underlying the ass
 embly of biopolymers and bio-colloids in order to facilitate their wide-sp
 read implementation into high performance sustainable materials.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/92965401746
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