View source for Smart polymer materials & hybrid systems

{{MainNavigation}}
Stimuli-responsive polymer materials can adapt to surrounding environments, regulate transport of ions and molecules, change wettability and adhesion of different species upon external stimuli, or convert chemical and biochemical signals into optical, electrical, thermal, and mechanical signals and vice versa.  These materials have played an increasingly important role in a diverse range of applications, such as drug delivery, diagnostic, tissue engineering, and “smart” optical systems, as well as biosensors, microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS), coatings, and textiles.
The symposium aims to review recent advances in stimuli responsive functional thin polymer films and micro-/nano-patterned thin films, polymer brushes, membranes with functional and responsive channels, functional networks/hydrogels with controllable swelling/permeability, microfludic responsive channels, responsive polymeric and composite nanoparticles and their dispersions, responsive polymeric systems coupled with quantum dots, plasmonic, photonic devices and electrochemical processes,  and  applications of the responsive polymeric systems for sensors, “intelligent” materials, micro-actuators, delivery capsules, systems with tunable and switchable release, separation, permeability and interactions, responsive systems integrated with biomacromolecules and scaffolds for cell research and tissue engineering.

==Session organizer==

[[File:Sergiy-Minko-CV.jpg|left|200px]]

'''[http://people.clarkson.edu/~sminko Prof. Sergiy Minko]''' is the Egon Matijevic Chaired Professor, in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science at Clarkson University. Dr. Minko's interests include nanostructured materials, responsive materials, biomaterials, single molecule research, colloids, nanoparticles, metal clusters, thin films, polymers, polymer interfaces, and polymer composites.
<div style="clear:left;">

==Confirmed speakers==
* {{Mitchell Anthamatten}}
* '''[http://www.ims.uconn.edu/~avd/ Prof. Andrey V. Dobrynin]''', Associate Professor, Institute of Materials Science, & Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA: ''Polyelectrolyte Brushes: From Single Chains to Bundles of Chains.''
* '''[http://www.chemistry.mcgill.ca/directory/people.php?p=16&n=Eisenberg&t=materials Prof. Adi Eisenberg]''', Otto Maass Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
* '''[http://henderson.syr.edu/people.php Prof. James Henderson]''', Syracuse Biomaterials Institute  and the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, NY.
* '''Dr. Karsten Hinrichs''', [http://www.isas.de/ Institute for Analytical Sciences], Berlin, Germany
* '''[http://pubget.com/profile/author/Nykypanchuk%20D Dr. Dmytro Nykypanchuk]''',  Brookhaven National Laboratory,  NY
* '''[http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~cober/ Prof. Christopher K. Ober], Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
* '''[http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/matter_research/fellows/svetlana-santer Prof. Svetlana Santer]''',  University of Potsdam, Germany
* '''[http://www.stevens.edu/ses/about_soe/faculty/faculty_profile.php?faculty_id=111 Prof. Svetlana A. Sukhishvili]''', Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
* '''[http://www.usp.edu/academics/collegesDepts/chemistry/Faculty/sidorenko.aspx Prof. Alexander Sidorenko]''', University of Sciences in Philadelphia, PA
* '''[http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~uli/index.html Prof. Ulrich Wiesner]''', Cornell University, NY

[[Category:Program content]]

{| class="wikitable" 
 |-
 |<!--column1-->[[File:Anthamatten,_Mitchell.jpg|75px|]]
 |<!--column2-->[[File:Dobrynin.jpg|100px|]]
 |<!--column3-->[[File:Eisenberg.jpg|100px|]]
 |<!--column4-->[[File:Henderson.jpg‎|90px|]]
 |<!--column5-->[[File:Nykypanchuk.jpg|100px|]]
 |<!--column6-->[[File:Santer.jpg|90px|]]
 |<!--column7-->[[File:Sukhish.jpg‎|100px|]]
 |<!--column8-->[[File:Sidorenko.jpg|80px|]]
 |<!--column9-->[[File:Wiesner.jpg‎|90px|]]
 |-
 |<!--column1-->Dr. Anthamatten
 |<!--column2-->Dr. Dobrynin
 |<!--column3-->Dr. Eisenberg
 |<!--column4-->Dr. Henderson
 |<!--column5-->Dr. Nykypanchuk
 |<!--column6-->Dr. Santer
 |<!--column7-->Dr. Sukhishvili
 |<!--column8-->Dr. Sidorenko
 |<!--column9-->Dr. Wiesner
 |}<!--end wikitable-->