Vorlesung und Seminar: Soft Matter Physics – Lecture

Soft Matter Physics

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Introduction

Mon 12.04.21 lecture 1: Introduction
Forces, energies and timescales in condensed matter
Introduction to seminar topics 

Colloids

Tue 13.04.21 lecture 2: Brownian motion: Colloidal particles in fluids
Single particle in a liquid, Brownian motion, Perrin's experiment

Mon 19.04.21 lecture 3: Colloidal Interactions
Van der waals forces, electrostatic interaction, the electric double layer, DLVO theory
colloidal probe techniques

Tue 20.04.21: lecture 4: Colloidal dispersions
entropic forces, osmotic pressure, depletion forces, hard sphere model

Polymers & Gels

Mon 26.04.21 lecture 5: Polymers: Chain conformation and thermodynamics
Random coil, Gauss chain, radius of gyration, form factor
force-extension relation, entropic spring, Langevin function

Mon 03.05.21 lecture 6:  Polymers: Linear viscoelasticity
viscoeleasticity, creep compliance, stress relaxation, special cases of non-linear viscoelastic behavior

Mon 10.05.20  lecture 7: Dynamic scaling
Reptation, rouse dynamics, percolation, Flory-Stockmaier-theory of gelation

Liquid Crystals & Molecular Self Assembly

Mon 17.05.21 lecture 8: Phase transitions
Polymer blends, mixing and demixing, spinodal decomposition, diblock-copolymers  

Mon 31.05.21 lecture 9: Liquid cyrstals
liquid crystal phases, thermotropic, lyotropic liquid crystals, isotrop-nematic transition
(Maier-Saupe, Onsager), topological defects, electric properties, displays 

Mon 08.06.21 lecture 10 Lipid Bilayers Biopolymers -
Membranes and vesicles, elasticity of membranes, lipid mixtures
DNA, proteins, protein folding, filaments, filament growth

Active Matter & Locomotion

Mon 14.06.21 lecture 11 Active Matter
motors, swimmers, active particles 

Mon 24.05.21 holiday

Mon 21.06.21 lecture 12 Active Matter

Mon 28.06.21 lecture 13 Soft Matter Concepts & Cell Migration

Mon 05.07.21 lecture 14 Soft Matter Concepts & Cell Migration