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SUMMARY:Towards Artificial Living Materials - Michael Brenner\, Harvard Un
 iversity
DTSTART:20150513T131500Z
DTEND:20150513T141500Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Colwell
DESCRIPTION:Biological systems provide an inspiration for creating a new p
 aradigm for materials synthesis. Imagine it were possible to create an ina
 nimate material that could both perform some function\, e.g. catalyze a se
 t of reactions\, and also self replicate. Changing the parameters governin
 g such a system would allow the possibility of evolving materials with int
 eresting properties by carrying out "mutation -selection" cycles on the fu
 nctional outcomes. Although we are quite far from realizing such a vision 
 in the laboratory\, recent experimental advances in coating colloidal scal
 e objects with specific glues (e.g. using complementary DNA strands) have 
 suggested a set of theoretical models in which the possibilities of realiz
 ing these ideas can be explored in a controlled way. This talk will descri
 be our ongoing efforts to explore these ideas using theory and simulation\
 , and also small scale experiments.
LOCATION:Department of Chemistry\, Cambridge\, Pfizer lecture theatre
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