Announcement. On November 12 at 16:00, Kharkiv Chemical Seminar invites you to a lecture by Prof. Silvia Vignolini entitled “Bio-inspired self-assembled chiral architecture for optics and plasmonics”.

     On November 12 at 16:00 Kyiv time, the Kharkiv Chemical Seminar team, initiated by the Institute of Functional Materials Chemistry of the SSI "Institute for Single Crystals" of the NAS of Ukraine, invites everyone interested to attend its next lecture. The event will be held online via Zoom.
     Speaker: Prof. Silvia Vignolini, Director of the Department of Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, and Professor of Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge.
She studied physics at the University of Florence (Italy). In 2009, she received her PhD in Solid State Physics from the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence. Since 2010, she has been working at the University of Cambridge.
      Lecture title: "Bio-inspired self-assembled chiral architecture for optics and plasmonics".
Both in nature and in materials science, complex architectures composed of chiral building blocks of biological origin give rise to unique optical effects, ranging from bright, vivid colours to exceptionally strong dichroism. However, when working with naturally occurring chiral building blocks, the main challenge lies in understanding how the properties of individual building blocks relate to the emergent properties of larger architectures and structures.
Silvia Vignolini's research addresses this gap by investigating the origins of mesophase chirality in particles of biological origin, such as suspensions of cellulose and chitin nanocrystals. By combining quantitative morphological analysis of individual nanoparticles, their final architectures, and their assemblies, her research demonstrates the functionality of such chiral materials in the context of optical materials, particularly plasmonic materials. It also provides examples of how these materials can be manufactured on a large scale.
      Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4590042894?pwd=dEZzSjlMbEdkQnhNODZYYjJoekVPUT09
Meeting ID: 459 004 2894
Passcode: Ch24022022
       Event coordinator: Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Prof. Valentyn Chebanov (chebanov@gmail.com; info@isc.kh.ua).
The seminar will be conducted in English. Participation is free of charge, and attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the speakers.

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   Videos of all Kharkiv Chemical Seminar lectures, along with detailed information about the sessions, are available at the following link: https://www.isc.kh.ua/en/seminar

      About the seminar
In April 2022, despite the full-scale war and the challenging working conditions in Kharkiv, scientists from the Institute of Functional Materials Chemistry of the SSI "Institute for Single Crystals" of the NAS of Ukraine launched Kharkiv Chemical Seminar — an open international scientific platform for lectures, discussions, and science outreach.
Since then, more than 50 sessions have been held, generating over 50,000 visits and views. The seminar's speakers have included eight Nobel laureates and leading scientists from around the world, making Kharkiv Chemical Seminar a notable event in the international scientific community.
Kharkiv Chemical Seminar video materials have been included in the collections of Non-Textual Materials of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).