Soft smart responsive materials: Fundamentals and applications (CECAM workshop)
- Beginn: 11.05.2017
- Ende: 12.05.2017
- Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
- Raum: Hermann-Staudinger-Hörsaal
- Gastgeber: MPI-P
Cosolvent driven coil-to-globule transitions of stimuli responsive
polymers, often coined as “smart polymers”, in mixed solvents are at the
outset of many developments in chemical physics, polymer physics,
biophysics and/or biochemistry research. This reaches from
responsiveness of hydrogels to external stimuli or concentration
gradients of the solvent to denaturation of proteins. At the same time
it is very difficult to investigate such problems in detail by
experiment and/or simulation. In this workshop we aim to bring together
participants from both the theoretical and the experimental communities,
with the goal to discuss fundamentals of smart responsive polymers and
their applications ranging from physics to biomedical purposes.