HYBER Symposium

Invited HYBER Symposium
12-13 May 2015
Hanasaari, Espoo
Day 1
9:00 Welcome – CoE HYBER Director Olli Ikkala (Auditorium Astrid)
9:05 HYBER overview by students and post docs
9:20 Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge:
Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications
Coffee and refreshments, Posters
10:30 Matthew Harrington, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces:
Metal-mediated mechanics: Mussel-inspired mechanisms for enhancing material performance
11:15 Ingo Burgert, ETH Zürich, Institute for Building Materials:
Bio-inspired functionalization of wood
12:30-15:00 Lunch in cruise boat at the coast of Helsinki
15:30 Albena Lederer, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at IPF Dresden:
Bioconjugation and encapsulation of biomacromolecular systems investigated by field flow fractionation
16.15 Neel Joshi, School of Engineering and Appl. Sci., Harvard and Wyss Institute:
Building functional materials from proteins: Assembly and dynamism
17:00 Bier & snack, Posters
17:30 Thomas Scheibel, Faculty of Engineering Science, Universität Bayreuth
Structural proteins: bio-inspired polymers for fibers, films, and more
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19:00 Dinner at Hanasaari
21:00 Dinner talk: Marcelo Dias, Aalto Science Institute, Aalto:
Mechanics of shape formation and controlled actuation in thin sheets of liquid-crystal elastomers
Day 2
9:15 Oren Scherman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge:
Exploiting dynamic self-assembly at interfaces
Coffee & refreshments, Posters
10:30 Rafal Klajn, Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science:
Dynamically self-assembling systems at the nanoscale
11:15 Stephen Eichhorn, College of Eng., Maths & Phys. Sciences, University of Exeter: Assembly of cellulose in water
12:00 Lunch (and posters)
13:30 Franziska Thomas, Organic and Biological Chemistry, University of Bristol
Rationally designed, de novo peptide building blocks for biomaterials assembly
14:15 Redouane Borsali, CERMAV, CNRS
Bio-based Block copolymer self-assembly: Nanoparticles and High resolution thin films
15:00-15.30 Closing remarks
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