Bio-inspired “Far From Equilibrium” Materials

Description

The creation of new materials capable of performing life-like functions inspired by biology, such as complex and cooperative processes, self-replication, and self-repair, will ultimately rely upon incorporating biological principles of spatiotemporal modes of self-assembly. Elucidating fundamental principles for the design of such out-of-equilibrium dynamic self-assembling materials systems is the focus of the February, 2019 issue of MRS Bulletin.

This webinar expanded on the Bulletin issue, and an interactive Q&A was held with each of the speakers following their talks.

Talk Presentations:

• Nature’s Functional Nanomaterials: Growth or Self-Assembly?
  Gerd Schröder-Turk, Murdoch University
  Talk begins at 5:30
    
• The Many Faces of Far-From-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
  Atanu Chatterjee, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Talk begins at 38:17
    
• Molecular Motors in Materials Science
  Henry Hess, Columbia University
  Talk begins at 1:02:41
    
• Opportunities for Materials Science: From Molecules to Neural Networks
  Giovanni Zocchi, UCLA
  Talk begins at 1:20:58

Sponsored by American Elements

Host(s):

• Germano Iannacchione, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Speaker(s):

• Henry Hess, Columbia University
• Gerd Schröder-Turk, Murdoch University
• Giovanni Zocchi, UCLA
• Atanu Chatterjee, Worcester Polytechnic Institute