Soft Matter Physics – Lecture

Soft Matter Physics

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Introduction

Tue 21.04.20: lecture 1: Introduction
Forces, energies and timescales in condensed matter
Introduction to seminar topics 

Colloids

Tue 28.04.20: lecture 2: A single colloidal particle in a fluid
Single particle in a liquid, Brownian motion, Perrin's experiment

Tue 05.05.20:  lecture 3: Colloidal Interactions
Van der waals forces, electrostatic interaction, the electric double layer, DLVO theory
colloidal probe techniques

Tue 12.05.20: lecture 4: Colloidal dispersions
entropic forces, osmotic pressure, depletion forces, hard sphere model

Polymers & Gels

Tue 19.05.20: lecture 5: Polymers: Chain conformation and thermodynamics
Random coil, Gauss chain, radius of gyration, form factor
force-extension relation, entropic spring, Langevin function

Tue 26.05.20: lecure 6:  Polymers: Linear viscoelasticity
viscoeleasticity, creep compliance, stress relaxation, special cases of non-linear viscoelastic behavior

Tue 02.06.20: no lecture

Tue 09.06.20 lecture 7: Dynamic scaling
Reptation, rouse dynamics, percolation, Flory-Stockmaier-theory of gelation

Liquid Crystals & Molecular Self Assembly

Tue 16.06.20: lecture 8: Phase transitions
Polymer blends, mixing and demixing, spinodal decomposition, diblock-copolymers  

Tue 23.06.20: lecture 9: Liquid cyrstals
liquid crystal phases, thermotropic, lyotropic liquid crystals, isotrop-nematic transition
(Maier-Saupe, Onsager), topological defects, electric properties, displays 

Tue 30.06.20: lecture 10 Lipid Bilayers Biopolymers -
Membranes and vesicles, elasticity of membranes, lipid mixtures
DNA, proteins, protein folding, filaments, filament growth

Active Matter & Locomotion

Tue 07.07.20:  lecture 11 Active Matter
motors, swimmers, active particles 

Tue 14.07.20: lecture 12 Active Matter

Tue 21.07.20: lecture 13 Soft Matter Concepts & Cell Migration