Presenter
Stephen Fielden, University of Birmingham
Stephen is a researcher in functional nanotechnology and has published several research papers in this area during his PhD and postdoctoral studies. He has been awarded a fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to undertake independent research and broaden his expertise in this area. A group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and institutional allies who cooperate to advance molecular machines, applications in energy, medicine, and material science, and long-term progress toward Richard Feynman’s vision of nanotechnology.
Summary:
My PhD training was in the area of molecular machines and interlocked molecules. Recently I have been working with polymer nanotechnology. In this talk I was discuss both areas of research and suggest how knowledge can be shared between these fields. Specifically, I will present my current work that explores the controlled fusion of polymer nanoparticles by harnessing chemistry that produces nonequilibrium states.
Challenges:
Achieving controlled trafficking of material between polymer nanoparticles would allow them to be used as ‘smart containers’. This is a grand challenge, it requires advances in polymer science, nanoscale analysis, synthetic active transport and systems chemistry.
