Walk in + Coffee
09:00-09:30
10:00- 10:20
Alwin Jansen
Simulating the biomolecular corona
10:20-10:40
Rozemarijn Kooij
Applying tissue clearing for fluorescence-based intraoperative tumour margin evaluation
10:40- 11:00
Yieon Park
Energy Transfer Between Two Dimensional Sheets
Coffee break
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
Kamila Handke
Mechanical deformation of stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer thin films
11:40-12:00
Maria Perraki
Motility of oil droplets in chiral lipid systems
12:00-12:20
Nicolas Monreal
Chiral morphogenesis: from elastic droplets to helical filaments
12:10-12:40
Leandro Mosquera Meztra
Niobium oxide prepared through a novel supercritical-CO2-assisted method as a highly active heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of azoxybenzene from aniline
Lunch break
12:40-13:15
Prof. Dirk J Broer
13:15-13:55
Liquid crystal networks: a special class of materials with soft robotic functions
Prof. Broer is Professor Emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology, fellow at the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems and distinguished professor at South China Normal University. His research field is polymer science with an emphasis on responsive polymers, self-organizing systems, liquid crystals, and their applications in the field of optics and soft mechanics. Prof. Broer started his professional career in 1973 at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven where he became Vice President Research in 2003 and specialized in data storage, communication, and display systems. In 1985 he introduced the process of in-situ photopolymerization of liquid crystal monomers, presently being used by many academic and industrial groups, for instance for optical and soft robotic components. In 2010, he became professor in Eindhoven to chair the Department Functional Organic Materials and Devices. Prof. Broer is member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has around 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals and more than 120 US patents.