[UCI-Calit2] Fri., Feb. 25 LifeChips Presentation: Silk - New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

[Shellie Nazarenus]

LifeChips Seminar Series Presents

 

Title: "Silk: New Opportunities for an Ancient Material"

 

Speaker: Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University Dept of
Biomedical Engineering 

 

Date: Friday, February 25, 2011

 

Time: 4 pm

 

Location: Calit2 Building Seminar Room 3008

 

Abstract: Famous for its use in clothing since early times, silk is now
finding new applications as a useful biocompatible material platform
with utility in  photonics and electronics. The talk will illustrate how
purified silkworm silk can be reassembled in a multitude of high
quality, micro- and nanostructured optical and optoelectronic elements
(and other things...) composed of this organic, biocompatible and
implantable protein matrix.

 

About the speaker: Fiorenzo G. Omenetto is a professor of biomedical
engineering and leads the laboratory for Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and
Biophotonics at Tufts University and also holds an appointment in the
Department of Physics. Formerly a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow at Los
Alamos National Laboratory before joining Tufts, his research is focused
on interdisciplinary themes that span nonlinear optics, nanostructured
materials (such as photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers),
optofluidics and biopolymer based photonics. He has published over 100
papers and peer-review contributions across these various disciplines. 

Since moving to Tufts at the end of 2005, he has proposed and pioneered
(with David Kaplan) the use of silk as a material platform for
photonics, optoelectronics and high-technology applications, is
co-inventor on over 40 disclosures on the subject and is actively
investigating novel applications that rely on this technology base.
This new research platform has recently been featured in MIT's
Technology Review's magazine as on of the 2010 TR10- 'top ten
technologies likely to change the world.' Prof. Omenetto was recently
named one of the top 50 people in tech by Fortune Magazine.

 

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments are provided.

 

 

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