Jessica Winter gives prestigious international lecture

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Jessica Winter (second from left) received the 2019 van 't Hoff Lectureship

Professor Jessica Winter recently traveled to the University of Delft, Netherlands, where she was honored with the prestigious Jacobus van ‘t Hoff Lectureship.

Winter, an established leader in nanobiotechnology whose primary research interest is the exploration of the relationship between nanoparticles and biological elements, gave a talk entitled "Encapsulating Hydrophobic Cargoes in Micelles via Scalable Nanomanufacturing Approaches." 

Her experience with scalable nanomanufacturing has grown as a result of her Quantum Dot imaging innovation, a high-caliber magnetic fluorescent nanoparticle which shines in different colors to tag molecules in biomedical tests such as cancer detection. After finding evidence that the refined particle could help researchers to significantly reduce costs, increase the efficiency of their research, better identify and understand disease progression, and improve patient outcomes, she founded a start-up company, Core Quantum Technologies, LLC, which is working towards providing the substantially-improved quantum dot and magnetic dot products to the research biotechnology market. 

The van ‘t Hoff Lectures are named after Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff, the first Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1901) who obtained a degree of chemical technologist from Delft University of Technology in 1871.

The annual lectures are delivered by distinguished international speakers who address a wide chemical and process engineering audience in the Netherlands and abroad.

 

 

 

 

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Abstract

"Encapsulating Hydrophobic Cargoes in Micelles via Scalable Nanomanufacturing Approaches"

Since their introduction, micelles have offered a facile platform for generating small nano particulate carriers to promote the solubility of hydrophobic molecules and nanoparticles. However, initial work has focused primarily on the use of short chain surfactants and batch methods. To meet the growing demands of commercial processes, methods to encapsulate larger numbers of cargoes at high packing densities while achieving high throughput are needed.

This talk explores the fundamental kinetic and thermodynamic principles of using block copolymer micelles for the encapsulation of nanoparticles and drug molecules via spray-based, scalable processes.