Assembly and Disassembly of Nanostructures for Stimuli-Responsive Materials Prof. Yadong Yin University of California, Riverside 201312122:00 221 Abstract: Self-Assembly has been employed as a very useful method for the fabrication of functional materials from nanoscale building blocks. New properties unavailable from individual nanoparticles are often created through the collective effects such as interparticle coupling and structural ordering. An important consequence of the formation of such secondary structures is that the properties of nanoparticle ensembles can be dynamically controlled by manipulating the assembly and disassembly behaviors, making them excellent candidates for constructing stimuli-responsive or smart materials. In this presentation, I will use a number of examples recently developed in my group to demonstrate that dynamic assembly and disassembly processes can be utilized as powerful tools to construct functional optical materials that can effectively respond to stimuli such as solvent, temperature, and electric and magnetic fields. BiographyProf. Yadong Yin received his B.S. (1996) and M.S. (1998) in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China. From 1999 to 2002, he studied as a graduate student at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 2003, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a postdoctoral fellow. Soon he joined the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as initially a postdoctoral fellow and then a staff scientist. Since 2006, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside. His research interest focuses on the synthesis, self-assembly, and functionalization of nanostructured materials for catalytic, analytical, and photonic applications. Prof. Yin has received a number of national awards, including Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, DuPont Young Professor Grant, 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation, and the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from the Chinese-American Chemistry Professor Association.