Speaker:Frank Caruso, Laureate Professor, the University of Melbourne, Australia

Date:May 8, 2019

Time:2:00 pm-4:00 pm

Location:Lecture Hall, F2, Institute of Crystal Materials, Central Campus

Sponsor:School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Abstract:

The development of rapid and versatile coating strategies for interface and particle engineering is of scientific and practical interest. This presentation will cover self-assembly approaches for generating metal–organic thin films, with an emphasis on interactions between polyphenols and metal ions to assemble adaptive, nanometer-thin and stimulus-responsive films. Polyphenols have various inherent properties including universal adherence, ROS scavenging, and pH-responsiveness, while metal ions can impart additional functionality into the films such as fluorescence, catalysis, and magnetic responsiveness. The influence of polyphenol structure and metal ion composition on film properties will be discussed. Variations in the assembly approaches will be shown to result in vastly different materials, from 10-nm-thick films to micrometer-thick, free-standing macroscopic materials. For example, using a solid metal source, films can be continually grown in situ, or by using spray assembly, films with gradient optical properties can be generated. Examples of these metal–organic films (in particle form) and their interactions with biological systems will be presented, and our recent initiative on minimum information and reporting standards in bio-nanoscience will also be discussed.

Bio:

Frank Caruso is a Laureate Professor and an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is also Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence on “Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology”. He received his PhD degree in 1994 from The University of Melbourne, and from 1994-1997 was at the CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers in Melbourne. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from 1997–2002. From 2003-2012 he was an ARC Federation Fellow and from 2013-2017 an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers with more than 45,000 citations (h-index 110). He is one of Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers and was on Thomson Reuters’ 2014 list of World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. He is an Executive Editor ofChemistry of Materialsand on the Editorial Advisory Board of ten other scientific journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2009 and of the Royal Society of London in 2018.

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Edited by: Sun Yangyang