Polymer-Nano-Particles Interactions: Concepts, Observations and Applications | |
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany | |
Organizers: Jens-Uwe Sommer (Dresden, Germany), | |
Nanoparticles (NP’s) have influenced almost all fields of application ranging from material science to medicine. One of the most interesting topics of study is the interaction of NP’s with polymers. These macromolecules are ubiquitous to nature being an integral part of biological systems and of tremendous import to engineering materials. A discussion in this area represents a topic of great technical importance with a large potential audience. An important condition for further development in the field is a deeper understanding of polymer-NP-interactions and of composite systems. Here, an entirely new class of models must be considered since NP's are much larger than typical solvent molecules in polymeric systems and they display a richer variety of interactions with polymer chains. The principal objective of the seminar is to join theory, experiment and applications to discuss the state of the art in the emerging field of nanoparticle-polymer interactions and nano-composite systems. It shall be a forum to discuss general issues about the further development in the field. The seminar will be dominated by interdisciplinary aspects of modern soft-matter research ranging from theoretical physics over chemistry up to biological aspects. The seminar shall give young researches the possibility to participate in lively and interdisciplinary discussions and to present their own research results as posters or, in selected cases, contributed talks. Here, the WE-Heraeus seminar provides the ideal conditions to bring young scientists in contract with leading scientists in the field with enough space for individual discussions.
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