No. 2 / September 2016

Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials

NEWSLETTER

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The BioSmartTrainee consortium is delighted to announce that we have filled our open early stage researchers (ESR) positions. The ESRs have been or will be joining our team in the period of between December 1st, 2015 and Sep-tember 12th, 2016. The biography of each ESR can be found on the BioSmartTrainee website

We are happy to start our BioSmartTrainee scientific program with the 1st Training School at the University in Patras!

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Further information are available at:

www.biosmarttrainee.eu

NEWS

EVENTS- PROJECT MEETING -

- TRAINING COURSES -

Dec 2016/Jan 2017Teleconference

21 - 24 March 2017Training School 2at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerfor-schung Dresden e.V. (IPF), Germany

NEWSLETTER CONTACTSandra Martinkaphone: +49 351/4658-599fax: +49 351/4658-98599mail: martinka@ipfdd.de

First Training School

Session I : Challenges and Fundamentals (I)

Session II : Fundamentals (II)

Session III : Novel concepts in adhesive chemistries

Session IV : Adhesion Testing

at the University of Patras (Greece)

AGENDA

09:00 – 09:20 Welcome and introduction to the ITN Biosmart (A. Synytska)09:20 – 10:00 Challenges in adhesion science and technology (M. Gerst)10:00 – 11:00 Adhesion – Physical Parameters (A. Ghatak)Break11:30 – 12:50 Presentation 4 research projects by studentsLunch

14:30 – 15:30 Adhesive polymers and formulations (K. Rischka)15:30 – 16:30 Macromolecular assemblies in aqueous media : from molecu-

lar interactions to macroscopic properties (D. Hourdet)16:30 – 17:30 Presentation 3 research projects by students

14th September

15th September

16th September

09:00 – 10:00 Crosslinked matrices with weak bonds (C. Creton)10:00 – 11:00 Catechol-based chemistry for bonding (J. Paez)Break11:15 – 12:00 Polyelectrolyte complexes for bonding (J. van der Gucht)12:00 – 13:20 Presentation 4 research projects by students Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Methods for measuring adhesion : lab/industrial tests (M. Seitz)

16:00 – 17:30 Measuring adhesion: micro/nanoscale tests (M. Kappl)

09:00 – 12:00 Management Meeting12:00 – 13:00 Lunch13:00 – 15:00 Management Meeting

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towards adhesion testing as well as in soft skills such as writing of scientific manuscripts, patenting, and making a good presentation.

Date: 21 – 24 March 2017

Location: IPF Dresden, Germany

Organizer: Dr. Alla Synytska

We would like to welcome our new fellows:

ESR 1: MARJOLEIN SLIEPEN

Marjolein is working on the fellow pro-ject: Responsive polymeric surfaces with controllable underwater adhesion properties. She will be hosted at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden e. V. in Germany.

ESR 2: MARIA VILLIOU

Maria is working on the fellow project: Bioinspired medical adhesives. The ESR 2 will be hosted at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken in Germany.

ESR 4: FRANCISCO J. CEDANO

Francisco is working on the fellow pro-ject: Underwaler adhesion between model gels and functionalized surfaces: from molecular interactions to macro-scopic adhesion. He will be hosted at the National Centre for Scientific Research/Graduate School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of the City of Paris, France.

ESR 5: MEHDI VAHDATI

Mehdi is working on the fellow project: Adhesive properties of injectable hydrogels. The ESR 5 will be hosted at the National Centre for Scientific Research/Graduate School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of the City of Paris, France.

ESR 6: VAISHALI CHOPRA

Vaishali is working on the fellow project: Adhesion of bioinspired micropat-terned adhesives on soft substrates. The ESR 6 will be hosted at the Leibniz Insti-tute for New Materials, Saarbrücken in Germany.

ESR 7: JUSTINE TAVERA

Justine is working on the fellow project: Functional polymers and latexes par-ticles for improved adhesion on fouled surfaces. The ESR 7 will be hosted at BASF SE Ludwigshafen, Germany.

ESR 8: KI WOONG (VICTOR) KANG

Ki Woong is working on the fellow pro-ject: Biomechanics of animal adhesion in wet environments. The ESR 8 will be hosted at the University of Cambridge in United Kingdom .

ESR 10: DIMITRIS MINTIS

Dimitris is working on the fellow project: Molecular modelling and simulation of polymers and polypeptides with con-trollable and adaptive adhesion prop-erties in wet environments. The ESR 10 will be hosted at the University of Patras in Greece.

ESR 11: AURÉLIE FÉAT

Aurélie is working on the fellow project: Advanced adhesion paints. The ESR 11 will be hosted at AkzoNobel/Imperial Chemical Industries in United Kingdom.

Dear All,

the BioSmartTrainee project is almost one year running, now. The first year was mainly shaped to recruit highly qualified and highly motivated young researchers to work within our consortium, which is set up to provide training in interdisci-plinary research field of controlling ad-hesion under wet conditions and to bridge the gap between the fundamen-tals of underwater adhesives and their practice.

I would like to take the chance to warmly welcome all our Young Researchers on behalf of the whole BioSmartTrainee team. I am happy that we could win you for the BioSmartTrainee project and I am sure that you will do your best to make the BioSmartTrainee successful for Europe, for the whole consortium, for your university/institute/company and for your own career. I am convinced that you will add another layer of success to our BioSmartTrainee quality efforts working at the interface of three complementary scientific fields: poly-mer science, adhesion and (fluid)-biomechanics.

I look forward to having you come on board and wish you a terrific start!

With best regards, Alla Synytska

TRAINING

TRAINING SCHOOL 2 at IPF DresdenThe Second Training School TS2 of the "Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials" (BioSmartTrainee) ITN organized by Dr. Alla Synytska at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research (IPF), will be held next year in Dresden at IPF from March 21st to 24th 2017. This school will focus on the novel concepts in the synthesis of interactive and adaptive polymers at surfaces, biological adhesion and multi-scale mechanics problems as well as industrial challenges in adhesive materials design. Furthermore, the early stage researches ESRs will be trained in the AFM colloidal probe technique

FELLOW WELCOME