Speaker：Prof. Paul Topham, Aston University (UK)

Part 1: Introduction

Time: Nov 16, 2022（Wednesday）4:30 p.m.

Part 2: Block Copolymer Annealing

Time: Nov 17, 2022（Thursday）4:30 p.m.

Part 3: Controlling Properties

Time: Nov 18, 2022（Friday）4:30 p.m.

Online Meeting: ZOOM 427 114 5896

Venue: AISMST ROOM 324 (Building #2, KeJiYuan, North Campus)

South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology

School of Emergent Soft Matter

November 9, 2022 

Brief Biography:

Professor Topham of Aston University in the United Kingdom is currently the Head of School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering. His research focuses on the synthesis, development and application of ordered polymer materials, including “smart polymers”, highly biocompatible and degradable materials, and polymer brushes. He uses a controlled polymerization technology (a combination of various organic chemical synthesis techniques) to make new polymer materials. These new materials can exhibit different characteristics depending on the material itself and the environment. His research interests are driven by the sustainable goals of our planet, working on organic solar cells, inkjet printing, electrospinning, microphase separation, x-ray scattering and bioplastic technologies. Since joining the University of Aston in 2008 (Graduate Employment Rate ranked 5th in the UK), he has received more than £6 million in research funding and is serving as head of a large EU joint project (1.4 million euros) with researchers in Thailand. His research has been published in leading journals in a variety of materials and polymers, such as JACS, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Macromolecules, Polymer Chemistry, Langmuir, Soft Matter; and has been invited to write two book chapters (published by Wiley Press). Professor Topham is the Secretary of the Polymer Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC); in 2014 he was awarded the Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal, and awarded the Elements of the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists (Hydrogen) in 2019.