Symposium Sessions

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The symposium will cover a broad range of topics that are germane to building advanced materials via self-assembly. Self-assembly is an important phenomenon on the formation of minerals in nature and has been become to a popular method to synthesize advanced materials in both lab and industrial scales. Up to now, plentiful materials prepared via self-assembly have been applied in various fields such as energy, catalysis, biomedicine, and electrics. For instance, advanced luminescent materials have been prepared self-assembly of intrinsically non-emissive molecules with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) .

One of the challenges facing this fast-growing field of advanced materials is to develop a fundamental understanding of self-assembly mechanisms, which will be addressed in this symposium. Contributions will include, but are not limited to: 1) Advances in synthesis of advanced materials via self-assembly; 2) Investigations into self-assembly mechanisms; 3) Observation of the self-assembly pathways via in situ techniques; 4) Theoretical development on the self-assembly; 5) Materials with aggregation-induced emission and their applications. The Symposium aims to bring researchers updated information on the fundamental self-assembly research through theory to experiments. It is also designed for the experienced researchers to reinforce their knowledge on the scopes of development of new techniques, especially the state-of-the-art in situ characterization tools, to understand mechanisms of self-assembly.

Topics will include:

• Building advanced materials via self-assembly
• Observation of the self-assembly pathways via in situ techniques
• Control of morphology and size during synthesis of advanced materials via self-assembly pathways
• Mechanism studies of self-assembly
• Biomaterials and polymer self-assembly
• Colloidal interactions and crystallization
• Fluorescent and phosphorescent AIE-based polymers, oligomers and molecules
• Design principles and operational mechanisms of the AIE based molecules
• Biocompatible AIE probes for sensing, imaging and other biomedical applications
• Applications of advanced materials build via non-classical crystallization pathways in areas of energy, catalysis, environment, biomedicine, optics, electrics, magnetics, etc.
• Self-assembly of inorganic or inorganic-organic clusters

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers:

• Luisa De Cola (Université de Strasbourg, France)
• James De Yoreo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Julia Dshemuchadse (Cornell University, USA)
• Hongyou Fan (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
• Kristen A. Fichthorn (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Oleg Gang (Columbia University, USA)
• Pupa Gilbert (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
• Yuning Hong (La Trobe University, Australia)
• Zachary Hudson (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Andrey Klymchenko (Université de Strasbourg, France)
• Nicholas Kotov (University of Michigan, USA)
• Yan Li (Peking University, China)
• Alvaro Mata (The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
• Utkur Mirsaidov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Anjun Qin (South China University of Technology, China)
• Kevin Rosso (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Dmitri Talapin (The University of Chicago, USA)
• Dong Wang (Shenzhen University, China)
• Yun Yan (Peking University, China)
• Xingchen Ye (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

Symposium Organizers