Abstract

Abstract : This grant provided travel support for invited speakers to facilitate a symposium on Patchy Surfaces and Interfaces within the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), at the 238th National ACS Meeting in August 2009 in Washington DC. The grant also provided support for a website to disseminate technical information to those unable to attend the symposium. This ARO grant provided partial support for eleven invited speakers, two of them from overseas. The symposium took place for 2 full days, on August 19 and 20 in the Ronald Reagan building. The talks were extremely well attended, with roughly 200 people in the audience. Subject matter ranged from methods for preparing and characterizing patchy surfaces and particles (with patchy lengthscales from 10 nm up to about half a micron), to investigations of the unique properties of deriving from interfacial patchiness. The latter include bioadhesive and bioresponsive behaviors of cells and bacteria, selective adhesive behavior of cells and particles without biomolecular fragments, assembly of new materials with magnetic, optical, and photonic properties, self-replicating colloidal structures, and sensors.

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