April 17 - 23, 2021
April 17 - 23, 2021 (Virtual)
2021 MRS Spring Meeting

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

Invited Speakers:

  • Luisa De Cola (Université de Strasbourg, France)
  • James De Yoreo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
  • Julia Dshemuchadse (Cornell University, USA)
  • Hongyou Fan (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
  • Kristen A. Fichthorn (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  • Oleg Gang (Columbia University, USA)
  • Pupa Gilbert (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
  • Yuning Hong (La Trobe University, Australia)
  • Zachary Hudson (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
  • Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Andrey Klymchenko (Université de Strasbourg, France)
  • Nicholas Kotov (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Yan Li (Peking University, China)
  • Alvaro Mata (The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
  • Utkur Mirsaidov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Anjun Qin (South China University of Technology, China)
  • Kevin Rosso (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
  • Dmitri Talapin (The University of Chicago, USA)
  • Dong Wang (Shenzhen University, China)
  • Yun Yan (Peking University, China)
  • Xingchen Ye (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Xin Zhang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Physical Science Division
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

Topics

biomimetic (assembly) crystal crystal growth crystallization nanostructure nucleation & growth self-assembly