Application of Smart Materials

About

This course is composed of 5 presentations:
- Piezoelectric Actuator based on ZnO used to present Braille text
- Plasmonic nanoparticles for bioanalytics
- Revealing stress and strain by color change using cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers
- Concentrating light with plasmonic nanomaterials for solar-to-chemical energy conversion
- Piezo mechanisms for optronics and space industry

Course leader

Leszek FRĄŚ - IPPT Wolfgang FRITZCHE - Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) Jan Lagerwall - Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine Alberto NALDONI - Palacky University Mathieu THOMACHOT - Cedrat technologies

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 define some of the applications of smart materials