This presentation will highlight collaborative research that aims to develop approaches to rapidly discover and manufacture hybrid inorganic-organic nanostructured objects (HIONs) possessing complex compositions, structures, properties and functions. Theory and simulation tools are being developed in the laboratory of Arthi Jayaraman at the University of Delaware, and applied to block polymers and block bottlebrush polymers to inform experimental synthetic, assembly and characterization studies in the Wooley laboratory at Texas A&M University. The assembly and characterization efforts are further enhanced by activities in the laboratory of Darrin Pochan at the University of Delaware. Finally, computational and experimental efforts in the William Johnson laboratory at the University of Utah are investigating nanostructure-substrate interactions and nanostructure transport through porous media. By leveraging interface-driven synthesis and dynamic assembly/disassembly of organic polymers and inorganic nanoparticles under flow, our goal is to expedite and drive intermolecular and interparticle assembly that is inefficient or impossible in the absence of such interfacial interactions.

Interface-promoted assembly and disassembly processes for rapid manufacture and transport of complex hybrid nanomaterials

256th National Meeting (2018)

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