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Bom dia,<br>
Muito agradecíamos a melhor divulgação pelos potenciais interessados
do seguinte seminário de investigação, o qual terá no Anfiteatro
Nobre do Departamento de Engenharia Química entre as 14:30-15:40
(ver informação completa em anexo):<br>
<br>
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New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
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PT" lang="EN-US">Nanostructured Polymers: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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line-height:normal" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
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PT" lang="EN-US">Opportunities in Health, Environment, and
Energy Applications</span></b><span
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lang="EN-US">Paschalis
Alexandridis, PhD <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Distinguished Professor <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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lang="EN-US">Dept. of
Chemical & Biological Eng. and Materials Science &
Eng. Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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lang="EN-US">University
at Buffalo (UB) - The State University of New York (SUNY)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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lang="EN-US">Buffalo, NY
14260-4200, USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/alexandridis">http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/alexandridis</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</o:p></span></p>
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT" lang="EN-US">Polymers offer prime
examples of materials where nano-
and meso-scale molecular organization impacts profoundly the
material
properties and function.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Copolymers,
consisting
of covalently-linked blocks of different chemical nature or
conformation, present model systems for the elucidation of the
connections
between chemistry, physics, and engineering.<span
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</span>The addition of selective solvents may disrupt certain
types of polymer
organization but can promote others.<span
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solvents thus provide valuable degrees of freedom for
controlling the
morphology and, hence, structure/property relationships, and can
dramatically
affect the local mobility.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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mso-fareast-language:PT" lang="EN-US">The presentation will
highlight the interplay between
fundamentals of block copolymer self-assembly in selective
solvents and their
applications in the (a) structuring of waterborne complex fluids
with
properties tailored for pharmaceutics, (b) environmentally
benign synthesis of
metal and semiconductor nanoparticles in a size- and
shape-controlled manner,
and (c) formulation of polymer gels with ionic liquids as
potential
electrolytes for lithium batteries.</span><span
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Com os melhores cumprimentos,<br>
Marco Reis
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Marco P. Seabra dos Reis
Auxiliary Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra
Polo II, Rua Sílvio Lima
3030-790 Coimbra
Portugal
Voice: (+351) 239 798 700/727
Fax: (+351) 239 798 703
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eq.uc.pt/~marco/research/pclab/">http://www.eq.uc.pt/~marco/research/pclab/</a>
"The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
- Mark Twain</pre>
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