From: "Larson, Jill U." <jlarson@seas.harvard.edu<mailto:jlarson@seas.harvard.edu>> Subject: [Friday-seminar] EE Seminar on Friday, April 18 - Fiorenzo Omenetto Date: April 14, 2014 2:40:49 PM EDT To: friday-seminar <friday-seminar@seas.harvard.edu<mailto:friday-seminar@seas.harvard.edu>> Cc: ap-gradstudents <ap-gradstudents@seas.harvard.edu<mailto:ap-gradstudents@seas.harvard.edu>> [hseas-logo] Harvard EE Seminar Series Friday, April 18, 2014 3:00-4:00 p.m. Room 330 60 Oxford Street Light Refreshments Silk as a Technological Biomaterial Platform on the Micro- and Nanoscale Fiorenzo Omenetto Tufts University Biomaterials offer opportunities for devices that operate at the interface of the biological and technological worlds. Stringent requirements on material form and function are imposed when operating at the nanoscale or when interfacing such materials with the microelectronics or photonics realms. In this talk we will present recent progress on the use of silk fibroin as the material base for nanostructured optical materials and thin-film electronics. Devices such as silk-based photonic crystals, lasers, wireless antennas and resorbable electronic will be described as some examples of the possibilities that this water-processed, biocompatible material offers. Speaker: Fiorenzo (Fio) Omenetto is the Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering at Tufts University. He is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and also holds an appointment in the Department of Physics at Tufts. His research interest cover optics, nanostructured materials (such as photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers), nanofabrication, and biopolymer-based photonics and electronics. Since moving to Tufts at the end of 2005, he has proposed and pioneered (with David Kaplan) the use of silk as a material platform for photonics, optoelectronics and high-technology applications. Applications of this material platform have received extensive press coverage, and have been featured in MIT’s Technology Review magazine as a TR10– ‘top ten technologies likely to change the world’ (2010). He was named one of the top-50 people in tech by Fortune magazine in a class of 50 featuring Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Shigeru Miyamoto among others. Prof. Omenetto was formerly a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Host: Marko Loncar _______________________________________________ Friday-seminar mailing list Friday-seminar@seas.harvard.edu<mailto:Friday-seminar@seas.harvard.edu> https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/friday-seminar