Randomness and order in the exact sciences

Self- and co-assembling soft matter

Tuesday 3 September 2013
House of the Estates
Säätytalo, Helsinki, Finland
      


Françoise Winnik
University of Montreal
Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Pharmacy. Finnish Distinguished Professor, University of Helsinki, Helsinki. Principal Investigator, WPI PI International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, Executive Editor, Langmuir (American Chemical Society). Her research areas include: Synthesis and solution properties of water-soluble polymers, Self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers, polysaccharides, nanoparticles and interfaces for nanomedicine.

Title: Functions of self-assembled soft materials
           designed through materials nanoarchitectonics
 
Abstract: The term materials nanoarchitectonics describes a strategy that would stir innovation in nanotechnology and facilitate the necessary paradigm shifts in classical material science as it is faced with the challenge of converting the new properties of individual nano-objects into functional and, eventually, commercial materials and devices. The approach shuns the conventional analytical aspects of nanotechnology in favor of a synthetic view conducive to innovation. It is intended to lead to integrated assemblies that display concerted functions by virtue of mutual interactions among their units. Current and anticipated functions of self-assembled soft materials will be presented and discussed within the framework of materials Nanoarchitectonics with particular attention to innovative approaches in nanomedicine.
 
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