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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2015. Mesoscale Chemistry: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21733.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

Mesoscale Chemistry
A Workshop by the Chemical Sciences Roundtable
November 6-7, 2014—Washington, DC

November 6, 2014

12:30-12:40 Introduction to Workshop and Topic
Speaker: Jennifer Curtis

Session 1: Overview
Chair: Jennifer Curtis

12:40-1:20 Growing (Up) from the Nanoscale to the Mesoscale
Speaker: Paul Weiss

Session 2: Catalysis
Chair: Bruce Garrett

1:20-1:40 Architectural Complexity at the Molecular Level
Speaker: Andrew Borovik
   
1:40-2:00 Bringing Mesoscale Properties to Molecular Catalysts by Attaching an Outer Coordination Sphere
Speaker: Wendy Shaw
   
2:00-2:20 Elucidating Key Features of Mesoscale Biocatalytic Systems and Employing Them in Designing Functional Artificial Enzymes with High Activity
Speaker: Yi Lu
   
2:20-2:40 Mesoscale Concepts for Design and Behavior in Heterogeneous Catalysis
Speaker: Cynthia Jenks
   
2:40-3:00 Strategies for the Synthesis of Mesoscale Catalyst Designs
Speaker: Peter Stair
   
3:00-3:30 Panel Discussion
   
3:30-3:40 Break
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2015. Mesoscale Chemistry: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21733.
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Session 3: Membrane Behavior/Microchemical Systems
Chair: Vernon Anderson

3:40-4:00 Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles Formation and Properties
Speaker: Erwin London
   
4:00-4:20 Digital Microfluidics: Not Just for Liquids Anymore
Speaker: Aaron Wheeler
   
4:20-4:40 Engineering at the Mesoscale: Microreactors and Membranes
Speaker: Benjamin Wilhite
   
4:40-5:10 Panel Discussion
   
5:10 Workshop Day 1 Adjourns

November 7, 2014

Session 1: Biomineralization/Geochemical
Chair: Patricia Thiel

8:45-9:05 Formation Pathways in Biominerals Revealed by Their Structure
Speaker: Pupa Gilbert
   
9:05-9:25 Slouching Toward the Mesoscale: Nucleation Events, Mineral Assembly, and Crystal Modifications Performed by Disordered Proteins
Speaker: John Spencer Evans
   
9:25-9:45 The Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly and Subsequent Mineral Formation: Understanding the Emergence of Order
Speaker: Jim De Yoreo
   
9:45-10:05 Small Compositional Signals with a Big Impact: From Sub-Micron Geochemical Heterogeneity to Climate Records
Speaker: Alex Gagnon
   
10:05-10:25 Mesoscale Geochemistry Research Opportunities On, Within, and Beyond Earth
Speaker: Andrew Madden
   
10:25-10:55 Panel Discussion
   
10:55-12:20 Lunch on your own

Session 2: Computational/Chemical Processes in Self-Assembly
Chair: Miguel Garcia-Garibay

12:20-12:40 Designing Novel Self-Assembling Protein Materials: Recent Successes and Future Prospects
Speaker: Todd Yeates
   
12:40-1:00 Bottom-Up Multiscale Approaches for Mesoscale Phenomena: Progress and Opportunities
Speaker: William Noid
   
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2015. Mesoscale Chemistry: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21733.
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1:00-1:20 View of Intelligent Mesoscale Biological Systems at Chemical Resolution—What Can Be Learned
Speaker: Klaus Schulten
   
1:20-1:40 Emergence of Entropy, Order, and Function at the Mesoscale
Speaker: Sharon Glotzer
   
1:40-2:00 Multiscale Computer Simulation of Mesoscale Biomolecular Cooperativity
Speaker: Gregory Voth
   
2:00-2:30 Panel Discussion

Closing Discussion

2:30-3:00 Open Discussion
   
3:00 Workshop Day 2 Adjourns
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In the last few decades great strides have been made in chemistry at the nanoscale, where the atomic granularity of matter and the exact positions of individual atoms are key determinants of structure and dynamics. Less attention, however, has been paid to the mesoscale--it is at this scale, in the range extending from large molecules (10 nm) through viruses to eukaryotic cells (10 microns), where interesting ensemble effects and the functionality that is critical to macroscopic phenomenon begins to manifest itself and cannot be described by laws on the scale of atoms and molecules alone.

To further explore how knowledge about mesoscale phenomena can impact chemical research and development activities and vice versa, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Research Council convened a workshop on mesoscale chemistry in November 2014. With a focus on the research on chemical phenomena at the mesoscale, participants examined the opportunities that utilizing those behaviors can have for developing new catalysts, adding new functionality to materials, and increasing our understanding of biological and interfacial systems. The workshop also highlighted some of the challenges for analysis and description of mesoscale structures. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.

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