IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Designing new materials for 4D (micro)printing: towards “living” systems
Coffee and cookies will be served at 13:00 before the seminar.
Abstract
4D printing has become a promising tool for the fabrication of dynamic and adaptive structures. During the last years, promising examples of defined 4D microstructures employing stimuli-responsive materials have been shown using two-photon 3D laser printing. In this lecture, I will present the state-of-the art of the the field with emphasis on the design of new responsive materials enabling the preparation of adaptive and structures. In particular, hydrogels, shape memory polymers as well as liquid crystal elastomers will be discussed. For example, simple and versatile formulations has been developed enabling complex microstructures with remarkable responsive and shape memory properties. Also, multi-responsive structures using photo responsive liquid crystal elastomers, were demonstrated. Furthermore, we have exploited the inclusion of dynamic and living bonds in a printable formulation enabling the creation of microstructures with „life-like” characteristics such as adaptability by tunable shape and mechanical properties. Last, sustainability aspect in the design of new materials of 3D/4D printing will discussed.
Bio
Eva Blasco studied chemistry at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), where she also completed her doctorate. She then received an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2014, with which she carried out her research in the groups of Prof. C. Barner-Kowollik (Polymer Chemistry) and Prof. M. Wegener (Physics) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. During this time, she spent a research stay in Brisbane (Australia) and subsequently worked as a group leader at KIT. In October 2020, she was appointed Junior Professor at Heidelberg University and in January 2023 she was appointed W3 Professor at the newly founded Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials (IMSEAM).
She has published more than 100 publications and has been awarded several prizes (e.g. Ernst-Haage and Dr.-Hermann-Schnell (GDCh) prizes in 2022 or the Young Investigator Award of the Spanish Chemical Society in 2023) and this year with the Advance Science Young Innovator Awards.
Furthermore, Prof. Eva Blasco is project leader (PI) and since October 2023 co-spokesperson in the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O).
Her research interests include the development of new functional and sustainable polymer materials for 3D and 4D printing, especially on the micro- and nanoscale.
Abstract
4D printing has become a promising tool for the fabrication of dynamic and adaptive structures. During the last years, promising examples of defined 4D microstructures employing stimuli-responsive materials have been shown using two-photon 3D laser printing. In this lecture, I will present the state-of-the art of the the field with emphasis on the design of new responsive materials enabling the preparation of adaptive and structures. In particular, hydrogels, shape memory polymers as well as liquid crystal elastomers will be discussed. For example, simple and versatile formulations has been developed enabling complex microstructures with remarkable responsive and shape memory properties. Also, multi-responsive structures using photo responsive liquid crystal elastomers, were demonstrated. Furthermore, we have exploited the inclusion of dynamic and living bonds in a printable formulation enabling the creation of microstructures with „life-like” characteristics such as adaptability by tunable shape and mechanical properties. Last, sustainability aspect in the design of new materials of 3D/4D printing will discussed.
Bio
Eva Blasco studied chemistry at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), where she also completed her doctorate. She then received an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2014, with which she carried out her research in the groups of Prof. C. Barner-Kowollik (Polymer Chemistry) and Prof. M. Wegener (Physics) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. During this time, she spent a research stay in Brisbane (Australia) and subsequently worked as a group leader at KIT. In October 2020, she was appointed Junior Professor at Heidelberg University and in January 2023 she was appointed W3 Professor at the newly founded Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials (IMSEAM).
She has published more than 100 publications and has been awarded several prizes (e.g. Ernst-Haage and Dr.-Hermann-Schnell (GDCh) prizes in 2022 or the Young Investigator Award of the Spanish Chemical Society in 2023) and this year with the Advance Science Young Innovator Awards.
Furthermore, Prof. Eva Blasco is project leader (PI) and since October 2023 co-spokesperson in the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O).
Her research interests include the development of new functional and sustainable polymer materials for 3D and 4D printing, especially on the micro- and nanoscale.
Practical information
- General public
- Free