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SUMMARY:Programming nanoparticle assembly’ - Dr Amelie Heuer-Jungemann\,
  School of Physics and Astronomy\, University of Southampton
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CONTACT:Teri Bartlett
DESCRIPTION:The last decade experienced significant advances in wet chemis
 try approaches to synthesize nanoparticles of various chemical composition
 s and morphologies. Metal\, semiconductor and magnetic nanoparticles of di
 fferent shapes and sizes have been produced and are being currently explor
 ed in many applications across disciplines. Moreover\, there was a great a
 dvance in new protocols to functionalize nanomaterials. \n\nNanomaterials 
 functionalized with biological molecules such as DNA\, small peptides and 
 proteins  opened up avenues for nanoparticle applications in biomedicine. 
 On the other hand\, nanomaterials coated with polymers  and small molecule
 s are exploited in applications related to energy\, catalysis and sensing.
 \n\nThe vast availability of functional nanomaterials resulted in explorin
 g new strategies for their organization into larger structures. Strategies
  for directing the assembly of nanoparticles into larger structures is a v
 isionary approach for developing mesoscopic multifunctional materials. Bei
 ng able to control the design of these materials by guiding the organizati
 on of nanoparticles allows one to envisage the creation of advanced materi
 als with co-operative properties deriving from the types of nanoparticles 
 making up the structure.\n\nIn this talk I will present several recent str
 ategies that we have developed in our group to direct the assembly of diff
 erent nanomaterials.\n
LOCATION:Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531)\, Cavendish Laboratory
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