| 8.45am-9.00am |
Registration |
| 9.00am-9.05am |
Opening remarks by Prof. Alex van Herk, PM Pharos program Advanced Surfaces
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| 9.05am-9.45am |
Tailoring Swelling Responses of Layer-by-Layer Films
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Prof. Svetlana Sukhishvili
Texas A&M University, USA |
| 9.45am-10.30am |
Sustainable Recycling of Cross-linked Polymers
and Composites with Full Property Recovery : Turning Cross-linked Polymers into Thermoplastics during Reprocessing and Back into Cross-linked Polymer
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Prof. John Torkelson
Northwestern University |
| 10.30am-11.00am |
Tea break |
| 11.00am- 11.30am |
A Sweet Approach to Resist Bacteria Growth |
Dr. Chen Xinwei
A*STAR, IMRE |
| 11.30am- 12.15pm |
Surface sensing, memory, and exopolysaccharides
in bacterial interactions with surfaces |
Prof. Gerard Wong
California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA |
12.15pm-1.15pm
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Lunch break |
| 1.15pm - 1.45pm |
Development of responsive polymers
for dynamic surfaces |
Dr. Anbanandam Parthiban
A*STAR, ICES
Dr. Lionel Moh
A*STAR, IMRE
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| 1.45pm - 2.30pm |
Hysteretic Wetting Phenomena :
Characterization & Applications |
Prof. Robert Cohen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2.30pm- 3.00pm |
Amphiphilic polymers as versatile surface coatings |
Dr. Nikodem Tomczak
A*STAR, IMRE |
| 3.00pm -3.30pm |
Tea break |
3.30pm-4.15pm
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Geometrical Shape-Shifting Protein Microstructures
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Associate Prof. Ling Xing Yi
NTU |
| 4.15pm-4.45pm |
Contact line dynamics in Leidenfrost transition |
Assistant Prof. Tran Anh Tuan
NTU |
| 4.45pm-5.30pm |
Dynamic Chemical Potential Gradients
for Driving Rapid Chemical Transport on Surfaces |
Prof. Paul Braun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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Registration is free
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