BPI SEMINAR BY DR. OTONI
July 29, 2022, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
TITLE
Tailoring Electrostatics Towards Controlled Assembly of Biobased Materials
DATE & TIME
July 29th Friday 10:30AM - 11:30AM PDT
LOCATION
CHBE Room 202, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
ABOUT THE EVENT
In this seminar, Dr. Caio Otoni will summarize recent efforts on the assembly of materials from colloidal building blocks wearing ionic or ionizable moieties. This will include oppositely charged biogenic polyelectrolytes and colloidal particles. Light will be shed on the reversible feature of this association and on the feasibility of tailoring the surface chemistry to control the properties of the formed materials, including functions that would not be attained otherwise, if uncharged.
AGENDA
Introduction by Dr. Emily Cranston, UBC
Keynote Presentation by Dr. Caio Otoni, University of São Carlos (UFSCar)
Q&A / Discussion moderated by Dr. Emily Cranston, UBC
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Caio G. Otoni is an assistant professor of Materials Engineering/Polymer Science at the University of São Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil), where he also received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (2017) in a dual affiliation with Embrapa Instrumentation. Food engineer by training (2013; UFV, Brazil), he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Inst Chemistry/University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil; 2017–2020), in a dual affiliation with the Brazilian Nat'l Nanotech Lab (LNNano/CNPEM), and a visiting scholar in BiCMat at Aalto University (Finland; 2019). Assistant Prof. Otoni has also been with ARS/USDA (USA; 2010-2011). His research is centred on biobased multifunctional materials from nanocelluloses and other biopolymeric colloids.