Conférence CRMAA avec le professeur Ian Manners (Bristol)

Titre : Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-Driven Living Self-Assembly.

Cette conférence sera prononcée par le professeur Ian Manners de la School of Chemistry de l'University of Bristol. Elle est commanditée par le Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assemblés (CRMAA) et sera donnée en anglais.

Résumé : Although chemical synthesis has evolved to a relatively advanced state, the ability to prepare well-defined self-assembled materials of controlled shape, size, and structural hierarchy is still in its relative infancy and currently remains the virtually exclusive domain of biology. In this talk the development of a promising new route to such materials, termed crystallization-driven living self-assembly, will be described. This approach was discovered as a result of an investigation of the solution self-assembly behavior of block copolymers with crystalline polyferrocenylsilane metalloblocks. It offers an interesting and potentially powerful new route to well-defined micelles and hierarchical materials with controlled dimensions and a variety of potential applications and appears to be extendable to a wide range of different crystalline core-forming blocks, including biorelevant and pi-conjugated materials.

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