AIBN/SCMB Seminar
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 24 February 2020
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Room:
- Level 1 Seminar Room,Building 75
- UQ Location:
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Anne-Marie Paroz
- Phone:
- 63811
- Email:
- reception@aibn.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Title: Functional Crystals in Medicine and Machines by Assoc Professor Jeremiah Gassensmith from The University of Texas. His group focuses on new “smart” materials based on bio-nanotechnology platforms. They have found the controlled nucleation and growth of porous crystalline materials aids and abets protein survival in the harsh conditions of the body. This allows them to control the release of therapeutic proteins from an in vivo implant. He will show this can help promote better humoral (antibody) response in releasing vaccines, which may lead to “single shot” vaccines that can be shipped without refridgeration.
He will also discuss a class of rare organic crystals that can pull, push, hoist and pop upon heating. They have found a class of reversible organic crystals cantilevers that are capable of expanding with 5 uN of force by undergoing a single-crystal to single-crystal phase transition. This results in a change of more than 10% of their total length as temperatures near that of the body fluctuate.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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