Title: Nanoscale Lily Pads

Speaker: David Robinson

Date/Time: August 2, 2006, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (PST)

Location: Building 915/S101 (Sandia CA), videoconferenced to Building 980 Room 95 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract: Most organic materials are electrically insulating, but on a nanometer length scale, electrical charges can move at significant rates through some of them - this is an important feature in many of the large proteins that allow living things to use energy. I will present some strategies for making these nanoscale phenomena more easily observable on a macroscopic scale using a combination of nanoparticle and block copolymer self assembly.

CSRI POC: Jean Lee, (925) 294-6677