ONLINE - Nanomaterials Chemistry Approaches to Address Health and Energy Challenges
CIC nanoGUNE Seminars
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Laura Fabris, Rutgers University
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2020/10/21
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**Nanomaterials Chemistry Approaches to Address Health and Energy Challenges**
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Dr. Laura Fabris
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University
Our planet is populated by an estimated 7.3 billion, highly interacting
individuals, who are, at least in the first world countries, enjoying longer,
hyperconnected, and comfortable lives. These facts bring substantial strain to
the healthcare systems, as people are more exposed to both communicable and
non-communicable diseases. In stark contrast, communities in developing and
low-income countries have limited access to healthcare and are often exposed
to communicable diseases, sometimes of zoonotic origin, in addition to being
unable to rely on sufficient screening for other non-communicable diseases,
such as cancer. Similarly, while people in high income countries are putting
substantial strain on energy resources, villages in low income countries are
completely off the grid. Therefore, there is the need to address healthcare
and energy issues for both the rich and the developing countries, taking into
account how approaches that could be effective for the rich world have to be
made substantially cheaper, rugged, and portable to address the needs of low-
income countries. In my talk, I will discuss how my group has been addressing
these needs by leveraging lessons from nanomaterials chemistry, intertwined
with inputs from physics, biology, and medicine. I will present our holistic
computational and experimental approach to rationally design novel gold
nanoparticles and describe how these particles can be employed to solve
medical and energy problems. For instance, I will show how they can be used to
quantify cancer cell phenotype at the single cell level and in tissue
microarrays by means of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), to
understand influenza A virus mutations in single intact cells, and to increase
the rates of hydrogen evolution via photocatalytic spitting of water through
near infrared light absorption. Taken together, these initial successes
promise to bring a nanomaterials chemistry contribution to solving current and
future healthcare and energy needs.
**Host:** J. M. Pitarke
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ONLINE seminar: Laura Fabris; Rutgers University - CIC nanoGUNE
When: Oct 21, 2020 04:00 PM Madrid
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