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直播预告| 2021年PKU-SIAT“交叉中的高分子科学”暑期学校

邃瞳科学云

2021-08-09

导读：8月10日上午9-11点，我们不见不散

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2021年PKU-SIAT“交叉中的高分子科学”暑期学校大会报告之二：Bioinspired Design of Active and Dynamic Soft Materials将于2021年8月10日上午9-11点举行，本次报告会由北京大学软物质科学与工程中心、北京大学化学与分子工程学院、教育部高分子物理与化学重点实验室和中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院深圳合成生物学创新研究院联合主办，期间授权邃瞳科学云进行直播。

背景介绍

科学的交叉产生了无尽的前沿。2021年是高分子科学第二个百年的开端。在上一个百年，高分子科学建立了链式分子结构的认知范式，在分子生物学和合成高分子两个截然不同的方向成就了伟大的功勋。在这一个百年，高分子科学又将做出什么样的贡献？为了探讨“交叉中的高分子科学”，北京大学软物质科学与工程中心、北京大学化学与分子工程学院、教育部高分子化学与物理重点实验室联合中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院深圳合成生物学创新研究院推出2021年北京大学“交叉中的高分子科学”暑期学校。

本次暑期学校致力于探讨高分子科学与合成生物学交叉新兴的“材料合成生物学”，是针对具有一定高分子科学和生物化学基础的本科生和研究生开设的一门专业基础选修课，其内容涵盖材料合成生物学中所涉及的若干具体知识准备和技术储备，包括材料合成生物学概论、高分子物理基础、高分子组装基础、高分子力学性质表征、针对微生物或动物细胞的基因回路设计与编辑、计算机辅助的蛋白质设计实践、生物大分子定向进化技术等等。课程取材上力求既包括材料合成生物学这一新兴学科的前沿，又涵盖所涉及的相关本征领域的最基础的知识和技术，以期帮助学生们了解学科的全貌，并初步掌握相关的基础知识准备，为促进学科交叉、团队合作、激活新思路新方向打下坚实的基础。

本次暑期学校的大会报告将对公众开放，报告人包括英国帝国理工学院的Tom Ellis教授（8月4日下午4-6点）和美国加州大学尔湾分校的Zhibin Guan教授（8月10日上午9-11点）。热忱欢迎高分子科学、合成生物学、材料科学与工程、化学等相关专业研究生参加！

报告内容

Many biopolymers not only have advanced mechanical properties such as high modulus, toughness, and elasticity, but more importantly, exhibit dynamic characteristics including adaptive, malleable, and self-healing properties. Following inspirations from the Nature, Guan lab has developed several families of biomimetic soft materials imbued with active and dynamic properties. In one system, we have designed a series of biomimetic modular polymers with folded nano-domains as the repeat units. In another example, we have developed strong and autonomous self-healing polymers using various supramolecular and dynamic covalent interactions. In contrast to previous designs, our system spontaneously self-heals as a single-component solid at ambient conditions without the need of any external stimulus, healing agent, plasticizer, or solvent. Recently, we have also made significant progress in dissipative self-assembly of active materials. The overarching concept for all these projects is to build a direct link between microscopic molecular properties and macroscopic bulk performance. In this talk, I will discuss the design, synthesis, and property studies of these dynamic polymers including adaptive, self-healing, and active materials.

报告嘉宾

Zhibin Guan obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1994 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Following a postdoctoral stint at Caltech and a short career at DuPont, in 2000 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at UC Irvine as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004, and to Full Professor in 2006. From 2006, he also became affiliated faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Department of Material Science at UC Irvine. He has received recognition of his research with several awards and fellowships, including the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, the Humboldt Bessel Research Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research work has been featured many times in scientific journals and newspapers such as C&EN News, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Forbes, etc. He served as the Chair for the 2018 Bioinspired Materials Gordon Research Conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

Website：https://www.chem.uci.edu/~zguan/