The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Joe Slocik,Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton Air Force Labs, on “Exploiting Biology for the Development of Air Force Relevant Materials” on Friday, Sept. 29, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245.
Joseph Slocik
Abstract: Biology offers inspiration, solutions, and opportunities for creating biomimetic materials and devices that can address Air Force material needs. This includes accessibility to a vast array of diverse biomolecular templates, higher-order structures with unparalleled functionality, and highly specialized and complex biological processes (ie. sensing and self-assembly). As a result, extensive effort has been aimed at mimicking the level of molecular and genetic control of biological systems for the synthesis and assembly of materials with the goal of creating advanced materials with new properties and structures.
In this talk, I will highlight some of our recent work on the development of bio-energetic materials using biologically derived components that rival conventional materials and present a bio-enabled approach towards tuning its reactivity. Also, I will describe how simple modifications to well characterized nanomaterial-binding peptides were used to remotely manipulate binding interactions and properties using light for reconfiguring nanomaterial biosensor platforms.
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