Events
Alumni-Meeting
- Date: Jun 4, 2021
- Location: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm Science Park, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Room: Lecture Hall (Central Building)
- Host: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
- Contact: katja.schulze@mpikg.mpg.de
The institute organizes together with the “Freunde der Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung e.V.” an annual meeting, which informs about the "Trends in Colloids and Interface Science". [more]
Multiscale Mechanochemistry & Mechanobiology
Multiscale Mechanochemistry & Mechanobiology - From Molecular Mechanisms to Smart Materials
- Start: Aug 23, 2021
- End: Aug 25, 2021
- Host: Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
- Contact: katja.schulze@mpikg.mpg.de
Mechanoresponsive materials are a topic of intense research across numerous disciplines. In biology, research on biogenic materials has revealed crucial links between specific protein building blocks and dynamic mechanical behaviors, while studies of biological tissues have identified sophisticated mechanotranduction mechanisms in cells for sensing their environment. Along similar lines, chemists and materials scientists are developing high-performance materials that exhibit specific programmed responses to mechanical stimuli (e.g. self-reporting and self-healing). Common to these diverse lines of research is a primary drive to understand dynamic responses of complex molecules to mechanical stimuli. [more]
