Symposium SM07-Building Advanced Materials by Self-Assembly
The symposium will cover a broad range of topics that are germane to building advanced materials via self-assembly. Self-assembly is an important phenomenon on the formation of minerals in nature and has been become to a popular method to synthesize advanced materials in both lab and industrial scales. Up to now, plentiful materials prepared via self-assembly have been applied in various fields such as energy, catalysis, biomedicine, and electrics. For instance, advanced luminescent materials have been prepared self-assembly of intrinsically non-emissive molecules with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) .
One of the challenges facing this fast-growing field of advanced materials is to develop a fundamental understanding of self-assembly mechanisms, which will be addressed in this symposium. Contributions will include, but are not limited to: 1) Advances in synthesis of advanced materials via self-assembly; 2) Investigations into self-assembly mechanisms; 3) Observation of the self-assembly pathways via in situ techniques; 4) Theoretical development on the self-assembly; 5) Materials with aggregation-induced emission and their applications. The Symposium aims to bring researchers updated information on the fundamental self-assembly research through theory to experiments. It is also designed for the experienced researchers to reinforce their knowledge on the scopes of development of new techniques, especially the state-of-the-art in situ characterization tools, to understand mechanisms of self-assembly.
Topics will include:
- Building advanced materials via self-assembly
- Observation of the self-assembly pathways via in situ techniques
- Control of morphology and size during synthesis of advanced materials via self-assembly pathways
- Mechanism studies of self-assembly
- Biomaterials and polymer self-assembly
- Colloidal interactions and crystallization
- Fluorescent and phosphorescent AIE-based polymers, oligomers and molecules
- Design principles and operational mechanisms of the AIE based molecules
- Biocompatible AIE probes for sensing, imaging and other biomedical applications
- Applications of advanced materials build via non-classical crystallization pathways in areas of energy, catalysis, environment, biomedicine, optics, electrics, magnetics, etc.
- Self-assembly of inorganic or inorganic-organic clusters
- A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.
Invited Speakers:
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Luisa De Cola
(Université de Strasbourg, France)
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James De Yoreo
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
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Julia Dshemuchadse
(Cornell University, USA)
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Hongyou Fan
(Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
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Kristen A. Fichthorn
(The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
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Oleg Gang
(Columbia University, USA)
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Pupa Gilbert
(University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
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Yuning Hong
(La Trobe University, Australia)
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Zachary Hudson
(The University of British Columbia, Canada)
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Rongchao Jin
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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Andrey Klymchenko
(Université de Strasbourg, France)
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Nicholas Kotov
(University of Michigan, USA)
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Yan Li
(Peking University, China)
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Alvaro Mata
(The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
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Utkur Mirsaidov
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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Anjun Qin
(South China University of Technology, China)
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Kevin Rosso
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
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Dmitri Talapin
(The University of Chicago, USA)
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Dong Wang
(Shenzhen University, China)
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Yun Yan
(Peking University, China)
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Xingchen Ye
(Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Symposium Organizers
Xin Zhang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USA
Qian Chen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
USA
Honggang Liao
Xiamen University
Department of Chemistry
China
Youhong Tang
Flinders University
College of Science and Engineering
Australia