Titre : Stimuli-Responsive Polymer-Based Sensors, Muscles, and Drug Delivery Platforms.
Endroit : Pavillon J.-A.-Bombardier, salle 1035 à 11 h.
Hôte : Professeure Jean-François Masson.
Cette conférence sera prononcée en anglais par le professeur Michael Serpe du Département de chimie de l'University of Alberta.
Résumé : Our research is focused on the development of novel polymer-based materials for solving environmental and health-related problems. To solve these problems, the group primarily employs poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAm)-based spherical particles as the active component in our technologies. PNIPAm-based particles (nano or microgels, depending on their diameter) are extremely porous, and are fully water soluble and swellable. Additionally, pNIPAm-based nano/microgels are responsive to temperature, shrinking in diameter as the temperature is increased to >32 °C and reswelling when they are cooled to
