報告題目：Designing Efficient and Functional Nanocarriers to Promote Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture

報告人👊🏻：   Gregory V. Lowry

報告時間：2023年11月15日（星期三）9:00

報告地點：線下 新環境大樓200會議室；線上 騰訊會議ID 223-909-558 密碼231115

邀請人🫱🏻：   李浩🕠、張禮知

報告摘要：

There is a pressing need to improve the resilience and sustainability of agriculture in a rapidly changing climate. Polymeric nanocarriers can be engineered for efficient uptake and translocation following foliar application. However, the design space for nanocarriers is extensive, and optimizing their design requires better understanding of how the nanocarrier properties affect nanomaterial-plant interactions as these interactions determine how they travel through plants, how they respond to environmental and biological cues to release an AI payload, and their ultimate fate. This talk will present different materials for nanocarriers designs and processes for making them, and will highlight what we know and do not know about the factors influencing their uptake into leaves, mesophyll cells, and phloem, and subsequent distribution to other plant tissues, e.g. roots, stem, younger leaves. Overall, this body of work helps to provide design rules for new materials that can provide precision and timed delivery of agrochemicals to plants.

報告人簡介⚔️：

    Gregory V. Lowry是卡內基梅隆大學的傑出大學教授，也是該校土木與環境工程學科的Walter J. Blenko高級教授。他目前擔任美國化學會Environmental Science & Technology執行主編和副主編⛩🧝🏿‍♂️。Gregory V. Lowry教授是美國科學促進會（AAAS）的會員。他在環境化學和納米技術領域的跨學科研究獲得了眾多獎項🎼，包括將機器學習和人工智能應用於這些領域🙆🏽‍♀️，其研究成果對全球農業可持續性🔵、環境修復和能源生產等領域做出了突出貢獻𓀌。