WCC 9 |
| Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. There are many properties of living systems that could be potentially harnessed by researches to make advanced technologies that are smarter, more adaptable, and that are synthesized to be compatible with the environment. One approach to designing future technologies which have some of the properties that living organisms use so well, is to evolve organisms to work with a more diverse set of building blocks. These materials could be designed to address many scientific and technological problems in electronics, military, medicine, and energy applications. An example is a virus enabled lithium ion rechargeable battery we recently built that has many improved properties over conventional batteries. This talk will address conditions under which organism first evolved to make materials and scientific approaches to move beyond naturally evolved materials to genetically imprint advanced technologies. |
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Many Faces of Chemistry: Women at the Forefront
1:30 PM-4:20 PM, Monday, August 20, 2007 Westin Boston Waterfront -- Revere, Oral
Women Chemists Committee |