On August 13, 2024, Zeng Hongbo, tenured professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta and academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, was invited to visit and exchange with the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China. and titled Probing Reversible Noncovalent Molecular Interactions for Advancing Multifunctional Soft Materials and materials. Surfaces academic report, chaired by Professor Chen Shougang, Deputy Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering.
In this lecture, Academician Zeng Hongbo introduced the basic principles of intermolecular forces and surface forces, as well as some commonly used nanomachine technologies. Using the wet adhesion case of Marine mussels, Prof. Zeng systematically explained the latest advances in how to apply nanomechanical tools to quantify intermolecular and surface interactions of polymer/biopolymer materials and biological systems, providing useful insights into biological self-assembly processes, and introducing new methods for developing multifunctional soft materials or surfaces through adjustable non-covalent interactions. The characteristics, strength, mechanism and application range of cation-π and anion-π interactions are introduced in detail. In the discussion session, many teachers and students actively asked questions, carried out in-depth exchanges on the cross-linking method of polymer materials, the selection and design of Marine engineering materials, and discussed the direction of scientific research, personnel training, cooperation and exchange.
This lecture is one of the series of lectures of Ocean University of China, sponsored by the Graduate School and undertaken by the School of Materials Science and Engineering. More than 60 students and teachers from the School of Materials Science and Engineering attended the presentation.
Text: Sun Xiao
Photo: Cao Lin
