International Conference on the Hierarchical
Structures in Complex Fluids
Kick-start program embedded in the KITPC program "Growth of Hierarchical Functional Materials in Complex Fluids"
Functional and structural soft
materials are often composed of hierarchical textures at different
length scales. They are formed from complex growth processes under
non-equilibrium conditions. From this
perspective, soft matter represents a versatile paradigm for the study of
complex growth processes, where various physicochemical
processes make a subtle balance to determine the metastable morphologies and functional patterns,
such as for controlling and directing
organization of macromolecules, colloids and inorganic particles. A multitude of
questions listed below may establish central milestones in the formation of functional materials
from complex systems.
1. Guiding the formation of ordered complexes in solutions and melts.
Pattern formation in mixed solutions or blends can be guided by macromolecules.
Examples are polymer controlled precipitation and co-crystallization, in which
the nucleation, growth kinetics, morphogenesis, relative stability of crystal
phases and their supra-molecular assemblies depend sensitively on the selective
polymer/additive adsorption. The rational design and control of complex
formation and growth processes of polymeric materials and macromolecular
organic/inorganic hybrid materials are not yet well understood.
2. Ordering under the influence of external fields
External fields (mechanical, electric, etc) can affect greatly the ordering and
morphology in complex fluid systems. Understanding the complex interplay between
the various types of external fields and molecular features presents a challenge
to theoretical physicists.
3. Confinement effects
Many hierarchical materials are formed in confined spaces through
template-controlled growth and aggregation, such as those found in shells,
enamels or bones. Growth in restricted geometries can lead to ordered materials
exhibiting unique properties. Theoretical study of confined growth and
self-assembly has been an active research area in recent years.
Sponsors: Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in China (KITPC)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC)
National Basic Research Program of China
Scientific Advisory Board: Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Daan Frenkel, Murugappan Muthukumar, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Günter Reiter(Chair), An-Chang Shi, Qi Xue, Kenichi Yoshikawa
Local coordinators: Wen-Bing Hu(Contact person),Yu-Qiang Ma, Feng Qiu, Yan-Ting Wang, Hai-Jun Zhou
Venue: 6620 Conference Room, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China,
No 55, Zhongguancun East Street,
Beijing, China
Visitor information: see http://www.kitpc.ac.cn/showpage.jsp?cID=visit_main
Registration: Only invited participants within the up-limit of 60 will be accepted.
Please make the online registration at http://kitpc.itp.ac.cn/login.jsp
Choose the hotel and then the secretary will send you the official invitation letter for your visa application and help you to make room reservation.
No registration fee, no reimbursement for short-term participants.
Conference meals and local excursion are provided during the conference period from July 5-8.
Conference language: English,
each speaker has 20mins talk+10mins discussion, and each poster has the presentation space 1.0*1.2m2
Program schedule:
July 4 Arrival and registration
9:30-17:30 Registration at Kavli Institute Building
July 5 Opening ceremony and scientific program
09:00:00 Arrival and registration
Registration in Room6310 of KITPC
09:30:00 Open ceremony
10:00:00 Coffee break
Room: 6620 Chairman: Charles Han
10:30:00 Karl Freed Multi-faceted manifestations of
equilibrium self-assembly
11:00:00 Kenichi Yoshikawa Real-world modeling on
hierarchical dynamics of living matter
11:30:00 Marcus Mueller Investigating structure formation in
polymer materials via computer simulations of soft coarse-grained models
12:00:00 Lunch set at Jiawang Restaurant
Room: 6620 Chairman: Kenichi Yoshikawa
14:00:00 Erika Eiser Unusual protein aggregation in Chinese
century eggs
14:30:00 Stefan Auer Phase diagram of alpha-helical
and beta-sheet forming peptides
15:00:00 Xiaqing Shi Steady state phases of 'self-propelled'
interacting microtubules
Room: 6420 Chairman: Wenbing Hu
14:00:00 David (Qiang) Wang Quantifying
fluctuation/correlation effects in inhomogeneous polymers by fast Monte Carlo
simulations
14:30:00 Robert Wickham Dynamics of microstructural
transitions in block copolymer melts
15:00:00 Baohui Li Conformation transitions of a
polyelectrolyte chain: A replica exchange Monte Carlo study
15:30:00 Coffee break
16:00:00 Poster Session
18:00:00 Reception at JinBaoGe Restaurant
July 6 Scientific programs in the morning and local excursion in the afternoon
Room: 6620 Chairman: Yu-qiang Ma
09:00:00
Penger Tong Colloidal interactions and dynamics at liquid interfaces and lateral
motion of proteins and lipids on live cell membrane
09:30:00 Daniel Ou-Yang Message in a bottle: elastic
properties of colloidal suspensions
10:00:00 Mark Miller Dynamics and topology of dipolar gels
Room: 6420 Chairman: Mueller Marcus
09:00:00
Jiaping Lin Hierarchical microstructures in complex copolymer systems
09:30:00 Ching-I Huang A Theoretical Study of Self-Assembling
Behavior and Optoelectronic Properties of Smart-Responsive Conjugated-Based
Triblock Copolymers
10:00:00 Zhongyuan Lu A recipe for building up hierarchical
structures from block copolymers
10:30:00 Coffee Break
Room: 6620 Chairman: Penger Tong
11:00:00
Alan Denton Polymer shapes and demixing in colloid-polymer mixtures
11:30:00 Yongfeng Men Packing of polymeric colloidal spheres
during film formation of latex dispersions
Room: 6420 Chairman: Jiaping Lin
11:00:00 Wei Wang Hierarchical structures in some dendron-containing
soft materials
11:30:00 Bela Mulder Self-organization of microtubules in the
plant cytoskeleton
12:00:00 Lunch set at Jiawang Restaurant
14:00:00 Excursion to the Summer Palace
18:00:00 Conference dinner at JinQianBao Seafood Buffet
July 7 scientific programs
Room:
6420 Chairman: Karl Freed
09:00:00
Charles C. Han Hierarchical structure of P3HT in solutions and the relationship
with its film morphology
09:30:00 Zhen-Gang Wang Minimum energy path to membrane pore
formation and rupture
10:00:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break
Room: 6420 Chairman: Daan Frenkel
10:30:00
Akihiko Sugimura Director dynamics for low molar mass nematic liquid crystals
11:00:00 Mahn Won Kim Effects of the external boundary
condition on the liquid crystal structure
11:30:00
Hongxia Guo Mesoscale simulation of the interfacial interaction-driven anchoring
transition at aqueous-liquid crystal interface
Room: 6620 Chairman: Bela Mulder
10:30:00 Gi Xue Confinement effect on ligand-exchange
reaction and surface dynamics for molecular assembly on nano-particles
11:00:00 Yeng-Long Chen Rescaling the force-extension
relation for strongly confined semi-flexible chains
11:30:00 Hendrik Meyer Structure and dynamics of polymers in
thin film and capillary confinement
12:00:00 Lunch set at Jiawang Restaurant
Room: 6620 Chairman: Shigeyuki Komura
14:00:00 Toshihiro Kawakatsu Hybrid approaches in density
functional theories on polymer/membrane systems
14:30:00
Chun-Yi David Lu The shape dynamics of the multi-lamellar vesicles
15:00:00 Rauzah Hashim Nature-like glycolipids self-assembly:
Structure and dynamics
Room: 6420
Chairman: Wenchuan Wang
14:00:00
Jianzhong Wu Statistical mechanics for the dynamics of non-equilibrium colloids
14:30:00 Ning Xu Jamming at high densities
15:00:00 Chen-Yang Liu Dynamics of entangled polymer
melts:contributions from single-chain effects and many-chain effects
15:30:00 Coffee break Coffee break
Room: 6620 Chairman: David Andelman
16:00:00 Shigeyuki Komura Dynamics
of a polymer chain confined in a membrane
16:30:00
Tiezheng Qian Contact-line motion with evaporation and condensation at solid
surfaces
17:00:00 Jiang Zhao Structures and dynamics of single polymer
chains under confinement
Room: 6420 Chairman: An-Chang Shi
16:00:00 Pingwen Zhang Numerical
methods of self-consistent field theory
16:30:00 Jaeup U Kim Block copolymers on patterned
substrates: Self-consistent-field theoretical study
17:00:00 Venkat Ganesan Self-assembly of diblock copolymers
on grafted surfaces
18:00:00 Conference dinner
July 8 Scientific programs
Room A 6620 Session on nucleation Chair: Mahn Won Kim
9:00-9:30 Zhaoyan Sun, CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, "Crystallization of hard spheres on patterned substrates"
9:30-10:00 Daojian Cheng, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, "Homogeneous nucleation of graphitic nanostructures from carbon chains on Ni(111)"
Room B 6420 Session on bio-mineralization Chair: Hsuan-Yi Chen
9:00-9:30 Chung-Yuan Mou, National Taiwan University, "Bio-mineralization of porous single crystal"
9:30-10:00 Dongzhong Chen, Nanjing University, "Bio-mimetic crystallization of calcium carbonate and its application in overbased nano-detergent"
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
Room A 6620 Session on nucleation Chair: Haijun Zhou
10:30-11:00 Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, "Relation between crystal nucleation, demixing and wetting"
11:00-11:30 Masao Doi, University of Tokyo, "Drying process of micro-droplets of polymer solutions"
11:30-12:00 An-Chang Shi, McMaster University, "Nucleation of ordered phases in block copolymers"
12:00 Lunch set at Jiawang Restaurant
Conference will be closed after lunch
Poster session
Five Poster Awards each with the prize of a laptop backpack offered by Springer Asia Limited Beijing Representative Office
Achari, Vijay Manickam, University of Malaya, "Self-assembly of glycolipids in multi-layer: a simulation study"
Arai, Shunto, the University of Tokyo, "Observation of surface layer during drying processes of polymer solution"
Chen, Wei, Nanjing University, "Surfactant-templated method for synthesis conducting polymer nanostructures: from micellar to crystalline template"
Chen Zhaocong, Nanjing University, "Acidic functionalized hyperbranched polyethers as biomimetic crystallization modifier for calcium carbonate"
Gao, Huanhuan, Nanjing University, "Effect of heating rate on the superheating of polymer crystals studied by simulations"
Han, Youngkyu, KAIST, "Packing structure of asymmetric dimers on air-water interface"
Hu, Zhijun, Soochow University, "Effects of confinement on the orientation of polymer chains and supramolecular assemblies"
Jiang, Xiaoming, Nanjing University, "Growth impingement of two cross-oriented lamellar crystals"
Li, Ting, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, "The behavior of confined semi flexible polymer chains: A subtle balance between energy and entropy and other surprising effects"
Li, Yuan, Nanjing University, "Crystallization of double-crystalline diblock coplymer studied by Monte-Carlo Simulations"
Ma, Yu, Donghua University, "Collapse transition of single multiblock copolymers in selective solvent"
Nie, Yijing, Nanjing University, "Deformation of a uniformly driven single polymer studied by Brownian Dynamics simulations"
Qian, Jieshu, University of Toronto, "Discovery of a supersaturation region for micellization and study of micellar growth kinetics"
Shi, Qiang, CAS Institute of Chemistry, “Theoretical study of the Infrared and Raman line shapes of liquid methanol”
Sun, Weitao, Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, "Understanding on the residue contact network using the log-normal cluster model and the multi-level wheel diagram"
Tian, Wen-de, Soochow University, "Computer investigation of dendrimers interacting with bio-macromolecules"
Yang, Kai, Soochow University, "Computer simulations of two uptake pathways of nano-particles by lipid membranes"
Ye, Sunjie, Nanjing University, "Mini-emulsion (periphery) polymerization and luminescent properties of polypyrrole PB core/shell nanoparticles"
Zhou, Dongshan, Nanjing University, "Comparison of crystallization behavior between semi-crystalline polymers and liquid crystals – A fast scanning differential calorimetric study"
Zhou, Yujie, Nanjing University, "A study of growth rate of polymer single crystal via Monte Carlo simulations"
Zhu, Shu, Donghua University, "Reconstruction of nacre-like hierarchy crystalline structure of Polypropylene by pressure-induced-flow (PIF) processing"
Zhu, Zhaoyan, California Institute of Technology, "Tight-binding calculation on CdSe quantum dot fluorescence"
Auditors
Andelman, David, Tel Aviv University
Cao, Dapeng, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Chen, Hsuan-Yi, National Central University
Chen, Kang, Soochow University
Dong, Jianhua, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Gao, Yiqin, Peking University
He, Xuehao, Tianjin University
Hu, Wenbing, Nanjing University
Li, Liangbin, University of Science and Technology of China
Li, Zhanwei, CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Liu, Hong, Jilin University
Luo, Kaifu, University of Science and Technology of China
Ma, Yu-Qiang, Nanjing University
Man, Xinkun, Tel Aviv University
Miao, Bin, Graduate University of CAS
Miao, Qian, Springer Asia Limited Beijing Representative Office
Orland, Henri, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay
Qiu, Feng, Fudan University
Sun, Dewen, CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Tang, June, Springer Asia Limited Beijing Representative Office
Wang, Wenchuan, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Wang, Yan-Ting, CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics
Xin, Xiangjun, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Yan, Dadong, Beijing Normal University
Yu, Haijun, ICMSEC, AMSS, CAS
Zhang, Xiaohua, Soochow University
Zhang, Zexin, Soochow University
Zhou, Hai-Jun, CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics