东吴化材大讲堂第1讲
报告题目：From supramolecular polymers to functional materials and chiral systems
报告时间：2025年10月21日（周二）14:00
报告地点：独墅湖校区907-1101
报告人：E.W. Bert Meijer（Eindhoven University of Technology）
报告人简介：E.W. Bert Meijer is a world-famous superstar in organic, polymer, and supramolecular science.
After receiving his PhD degree in 1982, he worked for 10 years in Philips(飞利浦) and DSM(帝斯曼), and then was appointed as full professor in Eindhoven University of Technology in 1991. Up to now, he has published more than 900 papers, including 23 Science and Nature, 149 JACS papers.
He is the
🔷member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science（荷兰皇家科学院院士）and the US National Academy of Sciences (美国国家科学院院士); International honorary member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (美国艺术与科学院荣誉外籍院士)
🔷editor of many well-known Top journals, associate editor of the JACS (JACS副主编)
His honors are too numerous to list. Only several examples:
🔷Spinoza Award (2001, 荷兰科学领域的最高奖项，常被称为“荷兰的诺贝尔奖”)
🔷the first Distinguished University Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology(2004, 埃因霍温理工大学最高荣誉)
🔷the ACS Award for Polymer Chemistry (2006)
🔷the Cope Scholar Award of the ACS (2012，美国化学会有机化学领域的最高荣誉之一)
🔷the Prelog Medal (2014, 普雷洛格(1975年诺贝尔化学奖获得者)奖章被视为有机化学领域的重要荣誉之一, 许多获奖者本身也是诺贝尔奖获得者)
🔷the Nagoya Gold Medal (2017，名古屋金质奖章，由日本化学会和名古屋大学颁发、国际公认的有机合成化学领域最高荣誉之一，获奖者中包含众多诺奖得主)
🔷the Hermann Staudinger Award (2022，以高分子科学之父施陶丁格（1953诺贝尔化学奖获得者）命名的高分子科学领域的最高荣誉之一)
🔷the Grand Prix in Paris (2024，法国化学界最具声望的综合性奖项之一)
🔷In 2020 he is knighted by the King to be Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (荷兰国王授予的荷兰狮骑士团司令勋章，荷兰最高和最负盛名的荣誉).
报告摘要：Since the discovery of the first polymers, scientists have debated their structures. Before Hermann Staudinger published the brilliant concept of macromolecules, it was generally assumed that the properties of polymers were based on the colloidal aggregation of small particles or molecules. Since 1920, polymers and macromolecules have been synonymous with each other; i.e. materials made by means of many covalent bonds that connect monomers in 2 or 3 dimensions. Although supramolecular interactions between macromolecular chains are clearly important, e.g. in nylons, it was unthinkable to imagine polymeric materials based on the interaction of small molecules. Breakthroughs in supramolecular chemistry have shown that polymer materials can be made by small molecules using strong directional secondary interactions; the field of supramolecular polymers was born. In a sense, we have come full circle. By controlling the supramolecular interactions between molecular fragments, it became easier to design systems materials with unconventional responsive behavior and dynamic functionalities. In all cases, control over the position of the molecules in time and space is essential to achieve the required functionality. In our group we focus on the emergence of homochirality in time and space and some examples of this challenge will be discussed in the lecture. We use this to design supramolecular materials and chiral systems with highly ordered morphologies that change their properties on the action of light, pressure, temperature, or the addition of chemicals. On the other hand, applications in spin filtering, biomaterials and OLEDs will be discussed with a continues focus on the molecular interactions using non-covalent synthesis.
东吴化材大讲堂第2讲
报告题目：Complex tissue-inspired materials based on supramolecular polymers
报告时间：2025年10月21日（周二）15:00
报告地点：独墅湖校区907-1101
报告人：Patricia Y.W. Dankers（Eindhoven University of Technology）
报告人简介：Patricia Y. W. Dankers is the member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (荷兰皇家艺术与科学院院士).
She holds two PhDs (双博士学位): one in Supramolecular Chemistry and Biomaterials from Eindhoven University of Technology (2006), under the supervision of Prof. Bert Meijer, and the other in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen (2013).
She has more than 200 publications, and is very much interested in translational activities, now she is a co-founder of the spin-off companies UPyTher (2020, advisor) and VivArt-X (2022, CSO); and the start-up company Helmond Biotech-materials Hub (HBH, 2023, MT). She is the CEO of a CRO and synthesis company, SyMO-Chem.
She has been awarded various grants and awards. She was awarded the KNCV Gold Medal (2020, 荷兰化学会金质奖章, 荷兰化学家所能获得的最高国家荣誉), and the KNAW Ammodo Award for fundamental research (2021, 荷兰皇家艺术与科学学院-Ammodo基金会基础研究奖).
报告摘要：The integration of synthetic components in
to biological systems will shape the future of regenerative medicine. In nature, tissues and cells are formed by complex, intricated molecular compositions held together by both covalent and directed non-covalent interactions. They can be regarded as complex molecular systems. The formulation of an artificial extracellular matrix from synthetic building blocks that can assemble and disassemble into supramolecular polymers on demand is proposed to lead to complex tissue-inspired materials. Making use of various supramolecular monomers, but also microfluidic processing techniques, different time and length scales are being addressed. We aim to apply these supramolecular materials for different applications, from drug delivery to tissue engineering and plant cell cultures.
