New capabilities to precisely control and dynamically tune the properties of surfaces and interfaces provide new avenues to novel applications in areas as diverse as biomedical engineering, pharmaceuticals, microelectronics, photonics, and advanced materials. A number of promising approaches to manipulate and tune surface structure and function have recently emerged, including molecular level conformational transitions, nanostructuring and nanopatterning, electrowetting, as well as several others. This symposium will address the fundamental principles underlying “smart” surface engineering as well as survey emerging technologies enabled by “smart” surfaces. The goal is to identify the most promising areas of research as well as stimulate cross-interaction between researchers working on complementary aspects of surface physics and surface chemistry.
Session Topics
This symposium will cover, but not be limited to, the following topics:
- Dynamically tunable surfaces (the dynamic effects of changes in solvent, temperature, adlayers, electrowetting, electromagnetic field, and light irradiation)
- Micromanagement of solid-liquid interfaces (composite interfaces, influence of nanopatterning and nanostructuring, dynamic tuning of solid-liquid interaction, reversibility aspects, and surface memory)
- Influence of surface morphology on the physical properties of solid-liquid interfaces (superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces, ordered and random nanostructured surfaces, influence of surface roughness, and micro- and nanopatterning, etc.)
- Fabrication and characterization of “smart” surfaces (traditional and nontraditional lithography, self assembly, plasma-induced modification of surfaces, polymerization, and polymer brushes)
- Applications of “smart” surfaces (in micro- and nanofluidics, lab-on-a-chip, chemical and biochemical microreactors, biomedical and pharmaceutical, microelectronics, molecular electronics, nanocomposites, crystal growth, and photonics)
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Invited Speakers
Invited speakers include: B.C. Bunker (Sandia National Labs), S. Craig and R.B. Fair (Duke Univ.), L. Jiang (Inst. of Chemistry, Beijing, China), M. Nakagawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan), C. Nuckolls (Columbia Univ.), R. Nuzzo (Univ. of Illinois), T.P. Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts), J. Ashley Taylor (Bell Labs), and O.D. Velev (North Carolina State Univ.). |
Symposium Organizers
Tom Krupenkin
Bell Labs
Lucent Technologies
Rm. 1D-352
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Tel: 908-582-8058
Fax: 908-582-6228
tnk@lucent.com |
Russell Composto
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
3231 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272
Tel: 215-898-4451
Fax: 215-573-2128
composto@lrsm.upenn.edu |
Michael Steigerwald
Columbia University
MRSEC Center for Nanostructured Materials
Columbia Center for Integrated Science and Engineering
MC 8903
Rm. 1001 Schapiro CEPSR
530 W. 120th St.
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-0185
Fax: 212-854-1909
msteiger@chem.columbia.edu
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