纪念何炳林教授诞辰100周年学术报告

报告题目: Pickering Emulsions and Their Use as Templates for Microcapsules
报告人:  Prof. Bert Klumperman
             Dept. of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 
报告时间：2018年4月17日(周二)上午10:00
报告地点：南开大学 蒙民伟楼 201室 

Abstract: Microcapsules and microcages can conveniently be synthesized by the use of Pickering emulsions as a template. Depending on the nature of the stabilizing particles (silica or polymer) and the process of shell formation, a variety of different morphologies can be obtained. In earlier work we reported on the formation of microcapsules through the sintering of polystyrene microparticles on the surface of inverse Pickering emulsion water droplets (Fig. A) and microcages through partial fusion of polystyrene microparticles (Fig. B). More recently, our work focused on the use of silica microparticles to stabilise the inverse Pickering emulsions, and on ways to stabilise the structure into colloidosomes that are able to entrap delicate matter such as live bacteria (Fig. C). Various techniques to stabilise colloidosomes will be demonstrated and their scope and limitations for different applications will be discussed.

Prof. Bert Klumperman obtained his PhD degree in Polymer Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands in 1994. He  joined Eindhoven University of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 1995 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. From 1998 onwards he was involved in the supervision of MSc and PhD students at Stellenbosch University. In 2006 he was among the first twenty scientists who were awarded a South African Research Chair by the National Research Foundation and the Department of Science and Technology. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. In 2012 he was awarded a second doctorate at Stellenbosch University. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. From July 2009 he is one of the Editors of Elseviers European Polymer Journal. From 2015 he is the Editor-in-Chief of Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. He has received many awards such as the Gold Medal of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI) (2013), the title of Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University (2014), the SASOL Chemistry Innovator of the Year medal (2015), the pretigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Lifetime Award (2016), and 2018 John FW Herschel medal of the Royal Society of South Africa. So far, he has published more than 180 papers. His current research interests are reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) and Nanomedicine.