报告题目：An Overview of Research at the New Jersey Center For Biomaterials

报告人：Prof. Joachim Kohn，Director, New Jersey Center For Biomaterials Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University

报告时间：11月19日（星期一）10:30-11:30

报告地点：逸夫楼演讲厅

联系人：李玉林

Biography

Prof. Joachim Kohn is the director of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University, a leading research center that develops clinically useful therapies for a wide range of diseases. He has 69 issued US Patents on novel biomaterials and seven companies have licensed his technologies. He is also the Chair of the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Due to his contributions, Prof. Kohn has received many awards and honors, including the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for best patent in New Jersey in the category of medical research, and the Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials. Prof. Kohn’s scientific expertise ranges from synthetic polymer chemistry and materials science to drug delivery, cell biology, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. He pioneered the use of combinatorial and computational methods for the optimization of biomaterials for specific medical applications. He discovered pseudo-poly(amino acid)s- a new class of polymers, which have been used to develop several kinds of medical devices for implantation in about 200,000 patients.

Abstract

Poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs), also called polymerized/polymeric ionic liquids, refer to an emerging class of polyelectrolytes that are prepared from polymerization of ionic liquids. In such structure configuration, some unique properties of ILs are incorporated into the macromolecular architecture. This in turn expands the property/function window of ionic liquids and traditional polyelectrolytes. Though PILs initially appeared in the IL community to play a merely complementary role towards ILs, the rapid advances in PIL research in the past several years have created a toolbox of innovative and versatile polyelectrolytes, which are of fundamental research importance to polymer community and meanwhile provide material choices and solutions in many other fields. This lecture will highlight energy applications of PILs in diverse forms, for example, precursors for energy carbons.^1-3 In addition, the lecture will also highlight the application of PILs in the porous membrane field.^4-8

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