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ABSTRACT / Today’s materials are predominantly defined by their properties which are independent of time and environment. In many cases, such stability is useful as it makes the behavior of devices based on such materials robust and predictable. But what if we had a free hand to design any materials we want with any properties we want – what kind of materials from our dreams would we design? One of the dreams are materials which have some characteristics of biological systems: those with self-healing capabilities, with memory functions, those which can evolve differently depending on external conditions. I will be discussing the methodologies to design such artificial living systems and the areas of their applications.
BIO / Professor Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov FRS was born in Russia in August 1974. He has both British and Russian citizenship. He is best known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for his achievements with graphene. Kostya is Langworthy Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester.