Symposium BM11-Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function

Advanced biopolymers are polymers that occur in nature and that can be engineered in forms that bring new functions to the natural materials. Silk fibroin, cellulose, collagen, keratin, DNA, elastin, mucin, suckerin are just few examples of these materials. Recent advances in biopolymers processing have set the foundations for their uses in agriculture, edible and implantable photonics and electronics devices, along with classical applications in the biomedical field. This reinvention of biopolymers in advanced materials originates from their innate ability to serve at the biotic/abiotic interface, nanostructured nature, assembly in multiscale, hierarchical architectures, low-energy processing, and ease of functionalization with doping agents. This symposium will bring together the most recent advances in the modeling, characterization and fabrication of biopolymers with their applications as advanced materials where engineered forms meet designed functions.

Topics will include:

Modeling of biopolymers assembly, mechanics and deformation
Characterization of biopolymers across several scales
Assembly of biopolymers: from self assembly to directed assembly
Biopolymers in regenerative medicine and tissue modeling
Optoelectronic applications of biopolymers
Advanced fabrication of biopolymers
Biofabrication and biomanufacturing

Invited Speakers:

BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _0 (Ohio State University, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _1 (University of Colorado, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _2 (University of Bari, Italy)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _3 (Stanford University, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _4 (Tufts University, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _5 (University of Delaware, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _6 (University of Illinois, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _7 (McGill University, Canada)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _8 (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _9 (Collège de France, France)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _10 (Ozyegin University, Turkey)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _11 (MINES, Saint-Étienne, France)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _12 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _13 (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _14 (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
BM11_Modeling, Characterization, Fabrication and Applications of Advanced Biopolymers—Where Form Meets Function _15 (Harvard University, USA)