Simulating, Understanding, and Manipulating the Assembly Dynamics of Nanoparticle Arrays

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(Public Law 111-5)资助，加州大学伯克利分校的菲利普·盖斯勒(Philip Geissler)获得了理论和计算化学项目的资助，该奖项旨在开发纳米颗粒自组装的理论模型。这项工作主要集中在两个模型系统上，这些系统被选作具有广泛应用的重要主题的例证：1)组装成截然不同的扩展模式的蛋白质复合体；2)通过溶剂挥发驱动的磁性纳米晶系统。这项研究虽然是基础，但与生物技术和纳米技术都有广泛的相关性。通过与一名表演艺术家的合作和向专业艺术家的观众讲课，国际和平协会发起了艺术和科学界之间关于艺术和科学共同主题的对白。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)Philip Geissler, University of California, Berkeley, is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to develop theoretical models of the self-asssembly of nanoparticles. The work focuses on two model systems chosen to exemplify important themes with broad applications: 1) a protein complex that assembles into strikingly different extended patterns and 2) a system of magnetic nanocrystals driven to aggregate by solvent evaporation.The research, while fundamental, has broad relevance to both biotechnology and nanotechnology. Through a collaboration with a performance artist and lectures to audiences of professional artists, the PI has initiated a diagolgue between the artistic and scientific community on themes common to both art and science.