Séminaire LMGP - 28/02/2018 - Dr Joseph PUIGMARTI-LUIS

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

Abstract
Self-assembly has long being used to control materials synthesis and their function. The main reason being that, like in nature, a full control over self-assembly processes could lead to functional materials with rationalized structure-property correlations, a long-time sought in materials engineering.
In this seminar, I will show that controlled heat and mass transport processes accomplished in microfluidic devices (a top-down approach) are excellent physicochemical vehicles to control the synthesis and rational design of functional matter in time and space (a bottom-up approach).