Nano-Lego | David Pine | TEDxNYU

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. A professor of physics and the director of the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University, David Pine is one of the original developers of diffusing-wave spectroscopy, an optical technique that has proven useful to study colloid systems. In this talk, Pine talks about programming nano-particles, so-called "pac-man" and "patchy" particles, to hook up and dance with each other using nano-dimples and "sticky DNA", which Nature magazine has called the "New Bond".

David J. Pine is an American physicist who has made contributions in the field of soft matter physics, including studies on colloids, polymers, surfactant systems, and granular materials.

A professor of physics and the director of the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University, Pine is one of the original developers of diffusing-wave spectroscopy, an optical technique that has proven useful to study colloid systems. Pine also has a longstanding interest in colloidal self-assembly and in the development of a broad range of colloids for these purposes, including colloidal templating, colloidal clusters, lock-and-key colloids, and patchy colloids with valence.

Pine has published over 100 articles and has received numerous fellowships and honors. In 2000, his work was recognized with the Society of Rheology Publication of the Year Award. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1999-2000) and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997).

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