Soft Condensed Matter Physics
AY2019/2020 Semester 2
This course provides an introduction to soft-condensed matter physics. Atomic and molecular forces. Hard-core repulsion. Polymers. Correlations in the fluctuations of solvent molecules; diffusion in fluids, electrostatics in solution. Poisson-Boltzmann theory. Electrophoresis; liquid interfaces and droplets. Lipid bilayers and vesicles; membrane fluctuations, cell mechanics; Colloids. Liquid crystal phases. Random aggregation and fractals; Viscoelasticity; Experimental methods - dynamic light scattering, self-assembling processes, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, measuring interactions with laser tweezers and tracking experiments.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreBDE |
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| 930 | COMMON LEC (LE) 0930-1030 Mon SPMS-LT4, LHS-TR+56 Even Weeks | 70690 TUT (T) 0930-1030 Mon SPMS-LT4, LHS-TR+56 Even Weeks | ||||
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| 1430 | COMMON LEC (LE) 1430-1630 Fri SPMS-LT4 | |||||
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