Polycoll Meeting 2018

The 2018 annual spring meeting of the Division of Polymers and Colloids of the Swiss Chemical Society will take place at the Adolphe Merkle Institute of the University of Fribourg. Eight invited speakers from academia and industry will showcase recent developments in the field.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers active in the field are encouraged to share their recent results with the community and to apply for oral and poster presentations, as this may foster connections between scientists at any career level, stimulate the exchange of research ideas, and result in future research collaborations.

The scientific program will offer invited and contributed lectures as well as poster presentations in the following fields:
- Polymer Chemistry and Physics
- Colloids and Self-Assembled Systems
- Surfaces and Interfaces
- Supramolecular Materials
- Biomaterials
- Responsive and Adaptive Systems
- Molecular Modeling

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Confimred Speakers:

• Prof. Pol Besenius (University of Mainz), «Transient Thermogels Mediated by Redox-Responsive Supramolecular Polymerization»
• Dr. Christophe Schmitt (Nestlé Research Center), «Functional protein-based colloids for controlling structure and stability in food»
• Dr. Omar Rifaie Graham (AMI Fribourg), «Wavelength-Selective Light-Responsive DASA-Functionalized Polymersome Nanoreactors»
• Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom (ETH Zurich), «Lord of the Renewable Rings - How to Master Cyclic Oligomers for the Synthesis of Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF)»
• Dr. Michele Zanini (ETH Zurich), «Rough colloids at liquid interfaces»
• Prof. Giovanni Pavan (SUPSI Lugano), «The importance of defects in dynamic supramolecular polymers»
• Dr. Stephen Schrettl (AMI Fribourg), «Responsive Materials Based on Non-Covalent Interactions"»
• Prof. Eric R. Dufresne (ETH Zurich), «Elastic Control of Phase Separation in Polymer Composites»
• Prof. Andreas Herrmann (DWI Aachen), «DNA-hybrids and supercharged polypeptides: From nanomedicine to whiskey authentication»
• Prof. Francesco Stellacci (EPFL), «Supramolecular Approaches to Fight Viruses»
• Prof. Erik Berda (University of New Hampshire), «Functional nanomaterials from single polymer chains»

Contact:

Prof. Holger Frauenrath, , website
Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials, EPFL Lausanne
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