4月19日，美国City College of New York-CUN的Prof. George John前来我室进行学术交流与访问，并为我室师生做“Green Nanotechnology: Soft Materials from Bio-based Surfactants”的学术报告。
　　Professor George received his Ph.D. in Chemistry (synthetic polymer chemistry) from University of Kerala, India in 1993. Performed post-doctoral work at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, STA fellow at HNIRI, Japan, and spent two years as a research scientist at the CREST of JST & Nanoarchitectonics Research Center, Japan. In the fall of 2002 he joined the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center as a research faculty and pursued his research interests in soft nanomaterials. Previous research involved bio-based organic/polymer synthesis, supramolecular chemistry and self-assembled nanostructures. Major goals of the current research include construction of nanostructured organic materials (vesicles, helices, tubes and gel systems) for bionanotechnology applications, understanding growth mechanisms of nanostructures and designing new structures and multifunctional nanocomposites. He joined the City College of the City University of New York as an Associate Professor of Chemistry in September 2004.