Presenter: Prof. Alexander A. Solovev (Fudan University)
Topic: Man-MadeMicro- and Nanomachines
Time: 3:00 p.m., Oct. 17th (Monday)
Location: Conference Room B, BLDG909-1F
Abstract
We live in the eraof machines’ miniaturization. Our group demonstrated "the smallest man-made jet engine" (Guinness World Record)based on rolled-up chemically actuated catalytic nanomembranes. Recent excitingdevelopments suggest that we are on the way to discover tomorrow’s multipurposenanomachines for realization of multiple useful tasks, such as: pumping offluids, transport of cargo payloads, personalized medicine, environmentalremediation and conversion of carbon dioxide greenhouse emission gas. Today, bothreductionist and biomimetic principles are used to explore more complex micro-and nanomachines. Concepts of reductionism were described byDescartes, who argued that the world is like a machine, its pieces are like aclockwork and the machine can be well understood and predicted by taking allpieces apart, determining their interactions and then putting them back. This presentation will discuss concepts, challenges and perspectivesfacing man-made nanomachines, their technological relevancy and importantbreakthroughs.
Biography
ProfessorAlexander A. Solovev is from Materials Science Department, Fudan University, P.R. China. Prof. Solovev finished his PhD at the Institute forIntegrative Nanosciences, Leibnitz Institute for Solid State and MaterialsResearch Dresden, Germany, in 2012. After PhD, Dr. Solovev continued hispostdoctoral appointments at Technical University of Munich, Max PlanckInstitute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and University of Toronto. Dr.Solovev’s Awards include: “Dawn Program Award” from Shanghai City, “1000Awards” for foreign expert from Chinese government, Humboldt Feodor Lynenfellowship, Max Planck fellowship, University of Toronto fellowship, DSMScience and Technology Award from Switzerland, the DAAD prize and he holds theGuinness World Record in nanotechnology for "the Smallest Man-Made Jet Engine".His research interests include inorganic nanomembranes, nanomachines, clean energy, personalized medicine andfar from equilibrium systems.
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