SCIENCE AT THE EDGE SEMINAR

Friday, September 8 at 11:30am
Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments at 11:15

Steve Granick
Departments of Chemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Polymer-Assisted Fun with Phospholipids

This talk describes epifluorescence studies of novel colloidal particles produced
when phospholipid vesicles are stabilized against fusion by armoring them with
adsorbed nanoparticles.  The resulting soft, hollow capsules can be used to carry
cargo, to release cargo, and for fundamental studies of colloidal dynamics even
up to the point of reaching an arrested, jammed state.  Time permitting, the
rotational dynamics of colloids painted black on white side, white on the other
side, will also be described..