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Javier Read de Alaniz

Light-Driven Soft Materials That Move, Change Color & “Survive”

Seminar
Mon, Mar. 17, 2025, 4:30pm
Taylor Auditorium, Frick Lab, B02
Host: Erin Stache
Speaker Details:
Javier Read de Alaniz

Professor
Associate Director of the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California – Santa Barbara

The Read de Alaniz Group
Research Area:
Catalysis / Synthesis

Photons have multiple enabling advantages to control chemical reactions, processes and stimuli-responsive materials.  In this seminar, I will discuss our groups effort to design and develop a new class of negative photochromic molecules termed donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA), their incorporation into liquid crystal elastomers and subsequent effort to unlock their potential to create “life-like” photoresponsive materials.

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