中科院纳米生物效应与安全性重点实验室
纳米技术论坛(NS Forum No. 293)
第293期学术报告会通知

题  目：Bioinspired nanomaterials for drug delivery and controlled release 
报告人：Associate Professor Chun-Xia Zhao,   ARC Future Fellow and Group Leader, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland 
时  间：2018 年 6 月 11 日 (星期一)， 上午9: 00 
地  点：国家纳米科学中心，南楼二层会议室
主持人：蒋兴宇 研究员 

Abstract
Engineered nanomaterials have attracted significant research interest during the past decades for various applications. Nature provides us with a wide range of sophisticated nanomachines that serve as a source of building blocks for various functional materials. For example, diatoms and marine sponges use self-assembled biomolecules (proteins or peptides) as templates to create hierarchical organic-inorganic architectures with precisely controlled structure, size, orientation and composition, which has been considered as a paradigm for biomolecule-controlled self-assembly of hierarchical materials. Mimicking these functions of biomolecules provide the opportunity to develop various functional materials for different applications. My lab has been focusing on the development of advanced micro and nanostructures based on bioinspired engineering and microfluidic technology. Patented technologies have been developed for making tailorable complex emulsions and core-shell nanocapsules for controlled release and drug delivery. In this talk, I will introduce how we design and fabricate different kinds of bioinspired nanomaterials based on emulsion templating, how we apply them for different applications, and how their physical properties affect their biological functions. We have also developed in vivo mimicking tumor chips to evaluate libraries of nanoparticles with an ultimate goal of accelerating the clinical translation of nanomedicines.