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Description: Friday, May 29th, 2015

Speaker
Emmanuel Stiakakis

Affiliation
ICS-3, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich, Germany

Title
Engineering DNA-based model soft-matter systems

Location
Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Time
16:00

Language
English

Abstract

DNA is widely recognized as a promising engineering material in the field of nanotechnology and material science. Here, I will show that using DNA as building block for constructing molecules with complex architecture in the field of soft matter can offer a great opportunity to obtain well-defined monodisperse systems with a wide variety of particle shape, stiffness, charge, etc. In addition, the size of the particles can be tuned such, that direct visualization of these complex structures on the single particle is accessible. A small library of well-defined DNA-based macromolecular assemblies will be presented, focused on two recently synthesized systems: (a) star-branched polyelectrolyte and (b) patchy rod-like particle.
Location: Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Status: Waiting for approval
Date: Friday, May 29, 2015
Time: 16:00-17:00 EEST
Duration: 1 hour
Priority: 5-Medium
Access: Public
Created by: Lila Kalogeraki
Updated: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 14:03 GMT