The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact presents their Distinguished Lecture Series: "Synthetic Strategies to Afford Natural Product-Based Polymer Materials: Impacts on Sustainability, Life, Health and the Environment" with Karen Wooley, W.T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

This presentation will highlight synthetic strategies for the development of polymers, block polymers and crosslinked network materials, which can be produced by relatively simple approaches from glucose and can be made to exhibit a range of properties. Target materials are designed for potential applications in diverse areas, from medicine, e.g., as nanotherapeutics or bioresorbable hemostatic agents, to the environment, e.g., as pollutant capture agents, climate-resilient hydrogel materials or naturally-degradable plastics. Examples will highlight contributions that polymer chemistry can make toward bulk technological materials that are capable of impacting global needs, such as water, food, energy and health, and the grand challenges that must be solved in the coming decade.

Registration is required. The talk will also be streamed live online.