The half-day Midwest Imaging & Microanalysis Workshop will include lectures from leading microscopists, scientists, and university affiliates. New microscopy trends and analysis tools will be featured through various lectures provided by stakeholders of the NDIIF as well as a discussion of future directions of Imaging Capabilities at the University of Notre Dame. An Imaging Award session with cash prizes will be held as well. Participation is free, but a reservation is requested. Register to attend here. Download 2024 Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis Workshop Agenda [PDF, 783k] Originally published at imaging.nd.edu.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Reilly Lectureship RecipientREILLY LECTURESHIP RECIPIENT Peptide surfactants (PEPS) for the Green Separation of Rare Earth Elements We have been developing functional peptide surfactant (PEPS) to meet an urgent societal need. Rare earth elements (REEs) are crucial to modern technologies. (Read more...)          

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Join the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for the Reilly Award Seminar Lecture, featuring Kathleen J. Stebe, the Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. AbstractNematic liquid crystals (NLCs) are highly non-linear fluids that have elastic responses that resist nematogen rearrangement and high-energy defect sites at which nematogen order is lost. Generally, the field of nematic colloids seeks to develop control over these elastic responses and defect structures to tailor colloidal interactions. We have been studying ferromagnetic disk colloids rotated by an in-plane magnetic field in nematic liquid crystals. The disk diameter and rotation rate are sufficiently slow that colloid inertia is negligible. In Newtonian fluids, these colloids rotate without translation. However, in NLC, the colloids’ anisotropic defect structure and the NLC’s elastic response generate broken symmetries that propel colloid translation. For patchy, rough colloids, a defect loop which forms on the disk undergoes periodic defect pinning, release, and contraction.This periodic defect motion generates a swim stroke that powers colloidal swimming. Changes in defect configuration with rotation rate provide a steering mechanism. In addition to this swimming motion, colloid shape and surface chemistry generate long-ranged emergent interactions with neighboring passive colloids in quasi-static settings. Furthermore, the non-linear response of the nematic fluid host allows pair interactions among rotating disks that differ strikingly in range and form from their static counterparts. These interactions provide a rich toolkit for reconfigurable materials assembly and open important fundamental questions regarding swimming at low Reynolds number in NLC. Biography Kathleen J. Stebe is the Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at the City College of New York, she received a B.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the Levich Institute advised by Charles Maldarelli. After a post-doctoral year in Compiegne, France under the guidance of Dominique Barthes-Biesel, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she became professor and served as the department chair. Thereafter, she joined the University of Pennsylvania, where she served in various administrative capacities including department chair and deputy dean. She has been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Radcliffe Institute. Kathleen is active in APS Division of Soft Matter Physics, and the ACS Division of Colloids and Surfaces, as well as the AIChE. Her research focuses on directed assembly in soft matter and at fluid interfaces, with an emphasis on confinement, geometry, and emergent structures in far from equilibrium settings for novel functional materials.   Originally published at energy.nd.edu.

The Notre Dame Keeping the Republic Conference brings together a group of both prominent senior researchers and early-career scholars dedicated to a broad revitalization of American democracy—not just in the sense of self-government—but rather as a societal commitment to the equal dignity and inclusion of each person and social institutions that encourage broad and open participation. This conference creates an interdisciplinary community of scholars devoted to studying and advancing the democratization of American culture and institutions across political, legal, civic, commercial, social, religious, and educational life. This conference is not open to the public and is by invitation only. Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.