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SUMMARY:Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using desi
 gner self-assembling peptides - Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical En
 gineering NE47-379\, 500 Technology Square\, Center for Bits &amp\; Atoms\
 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Cambridge\, MA 02139-4307\, USA.
DTSTART:20070126T141500Z
DTEND:20070126T151500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Kalin Dragnevski
DESCRIPTION:Materials science has generally been associated with metallurg
 y\, alloy\, ceramics\, composites\, polymer science\, fiber spinning\, coa
 ting\, thin film\, industrial surfactants and block copolymer development.
   That is about to change.  Materials science will also expand to discover
 y and fabrication of biological and molecular materials with diverse struc
 tures\, functionalities and utilities.  The advent of nanobiotechnology an
 d nanotechnology accelerated this trend.  Similar as construction of an in
 tricate architectural structure\, diverse and numerous structural motifs a
 re used to assemble a sophisticated complex.  Nature has selected\, produc
 ed and evolved numerous molecular architectural motifs over billions of ye
 ars for particular functions.  These molecular motifs can now be used to b
 uild materials from the bottom up.  Materials science will begin to harnes
 s nature’s enormous power to benefit other disciplines and society. \n\n
 Zhang\, S. (2001) Molecular self-assembly.  Encyclopedia of Materials: Sci
 ence & Technology\, Elsevier Science\, Oxford\, UK pp.5822-5829. \n\nZhang
 \, S. (2002) Emerging biological materials through molecular self-assembly
  Biotechnology Advances 20\, 321-339.  \n\nZhang\, S. (2003) Fabrication o
 f novel materials through molecular self-assembly.  Nature Biotechnology 2
 1\, 1171-1178.\n\nZhao\, X. & Zhang\, S. (2006) Molecular designer self-as
 sembling peptides. Royal Society of Chemistry 35\, 1105-1110. \n
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standa
 rd location**)
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