Vorlesung und Seminar: Soft Matter Physics – Seminar

A list of seminar topics and related literature is found in the accompanying moodle.

Paper presentations

COLLOIDS
(Tue 27.04.21, Tue 04.05.20)

• Instantaneous Velocity of a Brownian particle / Optical trap
• Anomalous Diffusion / Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)

• Single molecule trapping / Electrokinetic trap
• Why molecules move along a temperature gradient / Thermophoresis

• Conformation and Self-Diffusion of Single DNA Molecules / Quantitative image analysis
• Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy on Polysaccharides / Force Spectroscopy

• DNA nanostar networks / Parallel plate-rheology

• Magnetically responsive ferrofluid microdroplets as local mechanical actuators / Magneto rheology

• Liquid phase condensation: An emerging paradigm of cellular organization / Image analysis

• Three-Dimensional Imaging Near the Colloidal Glass Transition / Particle tracking
• Self assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes / SAXS
• Nanoparticles for mRNA based therapy / cryo TEM + SAXS

• Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers / Image Analysis
• Glass-like dynamics of collective cell migration / Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
• Topological defects in epithelia / time lapse
• Actin-based propulsion / micropipette
• Focal adhesions and actin retrograde flow / traction force microscopy (TCM)
• Minimal cells / microfluidics