Photo-active Materials

blended course

This course is composed of 10 presentations related to Photo-active Materials
- Spatial solutions to mold and route random lasing in liquid crystals
- Orientation approach to light-induced deformations in azobenzene polymers
- Smart, photoaddressable liquid crystal systems
- Stimuli-response polymers: from design to application
- Synthesis, characterization and application of the carbon nanodots
- Plasmonic analysis techniques for Smart Materials
- Life-like materials: from stimuli-responsive deformation, self-oscillation to light driven locomotion.
- Photomechanical Effects in Polymeric Materials
- Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystal based photomobile polymers
- Piezoelectric nanocomposites based on piezoelectric semiconducting nanowires

Course leader

Gaetano ASSANTO, Marina GRENZER, Malgosia KACZMAREK, Veronica AMBROGI, Katarzyna MATCZYSZYN, Massimo RIPPA, Hao ZENG, Timothy J. WHITE, Domenico SAGNELLI, Gustavo ARDILA

Target group

The school is mainly reserved for PhD, MSc students and postdocs, but also researchers from any branch of science who wish to increase their knowledge and awareness about Smart Materials, micro and nanotechnologies are very welcome

Course aim

To deal with Photo-active materials

Fee info

EUR 0: This summer school is free of charge