Preetika Rastogi, Paul Ashby, Timothy Chiang
This symposium aims to bring together researchers studying the synthesis, assembly, and characterization of proteins, polymers, surfactants, gels, colloids and fluid systems to advance the fundamental understanding of soft matter systems. These materials find application in drug delivery, active matter, separation technology and neuromorphic computing. The symposium will encompass a wide array of topics including self and directed assembly, soft-solid interfaces, interactions at multiple length and time scales and advanced characterization of assemblies in-situ using microscopic, scattering, rheological and spectroscopic tools. We welcome researchers from academia, national laboratories and industry to contribute and foster new collaborations.
Friday, August 21
Symposium Location: California Room
Symposium Schedule:
9:00 – 9:40 am
Particle adsorption to fluid and lipid interfaces
Joelle Frechette, University of California, Berkeley
9:40 – 10:00 am
Emergent Memristive Dynamics and 3D Percolation through Droplet Interface Bilayers in Jammed Structured Liquids
Sai Zhao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:00 – 10:20 am
Polar-p Interaction-Encoded Kinetic Phase Selection in Heteroepitaxial Two-Dimensional Molecular Assemblies
Yen Jea Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:20 – 10:45 am
Break
10:45 – 11:25 am
Title TBD
Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard University
11:25 am – 12:05 pm
Block Polycatechols: Old Horse, New Tricks
Samanvaya Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles
12:05 – 12:25 pm
Crystallization – driven supramolecular self – assembly as a tunable hierarchical pathway in solvent vapor annealed PS-b-P4VP complexes
Nayanathara Hendeniya, Iowa State University