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SUMMARY:The ultimate mesoscopic LEGO: complex self-assembly from anisotrop
 ic building blocks - Szilard Fejer (CUC3)
DTSTART:20090605T110000Z
DTEND:20090605T120000Z
UID:TALK17449@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr Mark Miller
DESCRIPTION:Being able to design molecular building blocks that efficientl
 y self-assemble into nanostructures with\nwell-defined shape is an importa
 nt contemporary research goal. The building blocks considered are often\na
 nisotropic. In order to approach the ‘bottom-up’ design idea effective
 ly\, it is useful to try to understand\nhow complex nanostructures existen
 t in nature might form from their building blocks. In this talk I will be\
 npresenting energy landscape studies on new rigid body potentials that sup
 port a wide range of low-energy\nstructures often found in biological syst
 ems\, including helical strands\, open tubes\, icosahedral shells\nreminis
 cent to virus capsids\, and even complex head-tail structures. By creating
  the simplest virus capsid\nmodel to date\, we show that the assembly of c
 omplex structures proceeds via universal guiding principles\ndetermined by
  the anisotropy of the building blocks.
LOCATION:Unilever Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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