美国密歇根州立大学副教授 Ilsoon Lee博士学术报告通知

 

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan, USA

 

 

Self-assembly based nanostructured materials have recently emerged as new tools to perform novel/multi functions in chemistry, materials science, biology, and engineering applications. These tools will enable us to create a new class of multifunctional nanoscale materials at the molecular level. The applications of these technologies will play an important role for next industrial revolution. This presentation will cover fundamental aspects of self assembly and nanostructured materials based on polyelectrolytes. Topics include novel self assembled monolayers (SAMs) on polymer surfaces, their assembly, surface patterning and disassembly as well as their function sorting the assembly of particles, proteins, and cells. In addition, mechanical, chemical, and thermal responses of layer by layer assembled polymeric thin films and particle nanocomposite films will be presented. Physico-chemical and biological aspects of the above mentioned molecular assemblies based on polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) with small organic and inorganic molecules, polymers, particles, as well as biomolecules will be covered for potential applications in biosensors, tissue engineering, and nanomechanical thin films.

 

 

Prof. Ilsoon Lee joined the department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor on August 16, 2002. Previously, he studied at Seoul National University (Summa Cum Laude, South Korea), University of Delaware (USA), and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (USA) for his Bachelors’ and PhD degrees and also postdoctoral experience, respectively. Recently, he was the recipients of Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship (2007, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society) and also Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2006, American Institute of Chemical Engineers). His research interests include molecular level control over self-assembled bio-thin films and nanostructured films via novel non-lithographic approaches, molecular self-assembly, and layer-by-layer assembly. His expertise also includes the nanofabrication and characterization of nanomechanical wrinkle free films, anisotropic functional nanoparticles, and high-surface and high-selectivity bioelectronic interfaces for biosensors, biocatalytic reactors, and biofuel cells. Early this year, his wrinkle free nanomechanical film work (Hendricks and Lee 2007, Nano Letters 7, 372 -379) has attracted a lot of publicity for its possibility of preventing human skin wrinkles. More than 50 news articles have been written about this work including articles from the Discovery Channel News, Health News Today, Pharmacy News, Chemistry World, Medical News Today, Science Daily, Timesonline, and a MRS Bulletin. The details can be found in the Prof. Lee’s website (www.egr.msu.edu/~leeil). Currently Prof. Lee is looking for industrial partners to commercialize the novel founding for the cosmetics and biomedical applications.

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