Seminar LMGP - 13/04/2017 - Dr Joseph Puigmarti-Luis

Dr. Josep Puigmartí-Luis - ETH Zürich
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering

Abstract

For chemists and material scientists the self-assembly process into intricate and functional structures is commonly studied changing the functional groups present in the constituent molecular building blocks. However, even though there are many reported studies showing the successful assembly of functional man-engineered structures, there is a constant need to explore new technologies that can facilitate control during self-assembly, regardless of the molecular units employed. In this seminar, diffusion-control microfluidic methods will be introduced as a top-down strategy to ease the design of self-assembly structures and to manipulate self-assembled processes in time and space.