Symmetry Breaking During the Synthesis of Nanoparticles

Xia, Younan

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Symmetry Breaking During the Synthesis of Nanoparticles

dc.contributor.author	Xia, Younan
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Department of Biomedical Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-06-05T17:42:53Z
dc.date.available	2018-06-05T17:42:53Z
dc.date.issued	2018-04-19
dc.description	Presented at the Symposium on Soft Matter Forefronts, April 19, 2018, from 2:50 p.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Rooms 1116-1118, Georgia Tech.	en_US
dc.description	Chairs: Kazem Edmond (Exxon) & Alex Alexeev (Georgia Tech).	en_US
dc.description	Younan Xia is with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 29:08 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Symmetry breaking is a ubiquitous phenomenon that occurs spontaneously when a system is subjected to variations in size and/or perturbations in terms of thermodynamic parameters. As a stochastic process, even small fluctuations acting on a system can arbitrarily push it downward one of the branches of a bifurcation. In this talk, we will use nanoparticle synthesis to illustrate the concept of symmetry breaking. Our aim is to convey its importance from a mechanistic perspective, by which one can rationally alter the experimental conditions to manipulate the growth pattern (symmetric vs. asymmetric) and thus generate colloidal nanoparticles with controlled shapes, structures, and properties for various applications, including the production of the famous Janus nanoparticles.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Sciences	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Georgia Institute of Technology. Institute for Materials	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Georgia Institute of Technology. Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Materials Science and Engineering	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	American Physical Society	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Exxon Mobil Corporation	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	National Science Foundation (U.S.)	en_US
dc.format.extent	29:08 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/59987
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Growth pattern	en_US
dc.subject	Nanoparticles	en_US
dc.subject	Soft matter	en_US
dc.subject	Symmetry breaking	en_US
dc.subject	Synthesis	en_US
dc.title	Symmetry Breaking During the Synthesis of Nanoparticles	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
dspace.entity.type	Publication
local.contributor.author	Xia, Younan
local.contributor.corporatename	Soft Matter Incubator
local.contributor.corporatename	Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces
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