Posts by Jian Lu published at ITN SNAL - Marie Curie Initial Training Network

Manchester: 2D Materials and Interfaces

Jian Lu — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:45:31 +0000

Lectures on Physics of Graphene, Lipids and Proteins Dates: 9-10 April 2015 Location: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK The lectures will be delivered by several invited experts as well as PIs in the training network. The courses will teach basic science and discuss recent advances in 2D materials research exploring their unique properties and opportunities for biotechnological applications. Honorary lectures of Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 Audiences Oriented on PhD students and postdocs No registration fee The courses will teach basic science and discuss recent advances in 2D materials research exploring their unique properties and opportunities for biotechnological

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ER1-U: Delivery of skin bioactives to assess the impact of membrane lytic biopolymers

Jian Lu — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:50:13 +0000

Impact of membrane lytic biopolymers on skin lipid membranes Contact Radka Petkova Objectives Exploration of the possibilities in obtaining of end product and involvement of the private sector in the training program. Exploring opportunities to implement the findings from different work programs into product relevant system; Identify potential gaps in the available toolbox for studying nano-object interactions with membrane lipid bi-layers and recommend way addressing those. Tasks and methodology By utilising both the research expertise and capabilities at Unilever to implement the learning from the program to date and try to create a prototype with improved delivery of benefit agents/active to

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ESR9-M: Investigation of interaction of membrane-lytic molecules with lipid monolayer

Jian Lu — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:14:29 +0000

Supported bilayers and vesicles Objectives The intention of this project is to obtain experimental information and feedback for system improvement of nano-objects interacting with model membranes (supported bilayers and vesicles). to apply a combination of techniques including neutron reflectivity, SANS (Manchester, Unilever), AFM, TEM (Strasbourg, Manchester) to characterise supported lipid bilayers and model vesicles; to investigate how different nano-objects (polymers, block copolymers, short peptide aggregates, CNTs, nanoparticles) interact with lipid bilayers; to undertake selected studies of the interactions with therapeutic complexes to identify the vectors that provide optimal therapeutic delivery with minimal cytotoxicity. Tasks and methodology Interaction of nano-objects with

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