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     COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
AND THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, & COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES
               (CSI 898-Sec 001 crosslisted with PHYS 703)
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         Anisotropic Particles for Biomedical Applications

                     Carolina Salvador Morales
 Bioengineering Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA            

There is great interest to develop differentially surface modified 
colloidal structures at the nano and micron size to advance their 
utility in several fields including medicine and electronics. A 
notable example is Janus particles. These particles have two 
distinct halves, each of them made of different materials.

We have developed a new type of anisotropic two-component particle
composed of a core structure made of an organic material and a patch 
formed by a polymeric material. These particles are unique because of 
their patchy core-shell structure with a hollow center that permits 
incorporating a wide range of payloads. Equally important, these 
particles can be synthesized at the nano-and micron-scales via a 
single-step self-assembly process.

In this talk I will describe our efforts to elucidate the mechanism 
by which the patchy particles form. Our expectation is to open up 
new opportunities in the fields of drug delivery, theranostics, 
vaccines, imaging and tissue engineering using these new patchy 
particles. In addition, I will provide an overview of other 
research projects conducted in the laboratory.

                          February 3, 2014
                               4:30 pm
                    Room 3301, Exploratory Hall, Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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