[Seminar]Global Opportunities in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- 2018-08-07
The Precision Biology Research Center (PBRC) invites Paul S. Weiss, a world-renowned scholar and a professor at UCLA, and holds a seminar as follows.
Please join us next Wednesday at the seminar.
■ Title: Global Opportunities in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
■ Speaker: Paul S. Weiss (ACSNano Chief Editor)
■ Time: Wednesday, August 8th, 15:00 PM
■ Place: Lecture Hall (room 711101), Medicine School Building, SKKU.
■ Contact: BICS OFFICE (031-299-6463)
○ “Global Opportunities in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”
Two seemingly conflicting trends in nanoscience and nanotechnology are our increasing ability to reach the limits of atomically precise structures and our growing understanding of the importance of heterogeneity in the structure and function of molecules and nanoscale assemblies. By having developed the “eyes” to see, to record spectra, and to measure function at the nanoscale, we have been able to fabricate structures with precision as well as to understand the important and intrinsic heterogeneity of function found in these assemblies.
I will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and consequences of pursuing strategies to address both precision on the one hand and heterogeneity on the other. In our laboratories, we are taking the first steps to exploit precise assembly to optimize properties such as perfect electronic contacts in materials. We are also developing the means to make tens to hundreds of thousands of independent multimodal nanoscale measurements in order to understand the variations in structure and function that have previously been inaccessible in both synthetic and biological systems.