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    Bom dia,<br>
    Muito agradec&iacute;amos a melhor divulga&ccedil;&atilde;o pelos potenciais interessados
    do seguinte semin&aacute;rio de investiga&ccedil;&atilde;o, o qual ter&aacute; no Anfiteatro
    Nobre do Departamento de Engenharia Qu&iacute;mica entre as 14:30-15:40
    (ver informa&ccedil;&atilde;o completa em anexo):<br>
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          Energy Applications</span></b><span
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          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 &amp; Biological Eng. and Materials Science &amp;
          Eng. Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          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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        examples of materials where nano-
        and meso-scale molecular organization impacts profoundly the
        material
        properties and function.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </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
          style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>The
        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">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        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 S&iacute;lvio Lima
3030-790 Coimbra
Portugal

Voice: (+351) 239 798 700/727
Fax:   (+351) 239 798 703

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 has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
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