Speaker: Prof. Harm-Anton Klok（EPFL）

Online Lecture, Invited by Prof. Linge Wang

Schedule:

Lecture 1 Engineering surfaces via surface-initiated polymerization

January 12, 2021, 3:00 pm

Lecture 2 Engineering living matter – surface modification and characterization of living cells for nanomedicine

January 14, 2021, 3:00 pm

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

Faculties and students are warmly welcome. 

School of Molecular Science and Engineering

South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology

January 8, 2021

Content:

Lecture 1 : Engineering surfaces via surface-initiated polymerization

1. Introduction to polymer brushes

2. Surface-initiated, controlled radical polymerization

3. Biologically-functional and responsive polymer brushes

Lecture 2: Engineering living matter – surface modification and characterization of living cells for nanomedicine

1. Introduction to nanomedicine

2. Targeted delivery with living cells

3. Surface engineering and characterization of cell based delivery systems

Brief Biography of Speaker：

Harm-Anton Klok is Full Professor at the Institutes of Materials and Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland). He studied chemical technology at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) from 1989 to 1993 and received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Ulm (Germany) after working with Martin Möller. After postdoctoral research with David N. Reinhoudt (University of Twente) and Samuel I. Stupp (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA), he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) in early 1999 as a project leader in the group of Klaus Müllen. In November 2002, he was appointed to the faculty of EPFL. Since 2012 he is Director of the Institute of Materials (~ Department Head) and also directs the Molecular and Hybrid Materials Characterization Center at EPFL.