Physics of Soft and Biological Matter 1 WS 2013/2014
Overview
- Type
- Lecture (2 SWS) and Tutorials (every 2nd week)
- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Christian Holm and Prof. Dr. Clemens Bechinger (Lecture); Dr. Jens Smiatek and Stefan Kesselheim (Tutorials)
- Course language
- English
- Location and Time
- October 17th, 2013 - February 6th, 2014
- Lecture: Thu, 14:00 - 15:30 (Seminar room ICP 1.079, Allmandring 3)
- Tutorials: Every second week on Tuesday, 16:00-17:30 (Stefan Kesselheim) in Seminar room ICP 1.079, Allmandring 3 and Thursday, 08:00-09:30 (Jens Smiatek) in CIP pool 1.033, ICP, Allmandring 3
- Prerequisites
- B. Sc. 5. Semester or Master
Scope
The lecture intends to give an overview about the physics behind soft and biological matter which has been established as a novel interdisciplinary research field over the last decades. Soft matter typically includes easily deformable objects like colloids, polymers/polyelectrolytes, membranes, liquid crystals as well as vesicles and micelles. Most soft matter effects are driven by electrostatic, van-der-Waals, solute-solvent as well as entropic interactions. Typical phenomena include order-disorder phase transitions or aggregation behavior. The lecture will focus on the physical principles behind the observed effects. In addition, fundamental principles and theories like the DLVO- and the Poisson-Boltzmann theory will be introduced. The interdisciplinary character of this research field is reflected by the presentation of experimental and theoretical work in addition to numerical simulation results.
Recommended literature
- Pierre Gilles de Gennes: Soft matter, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 645 (1992)
- Richard A. L. Jones: Soft Condensed Matter, Oxford University Press (2002)
- D. Fennell Evans and Hakan Wennerström: The Colloidal Domain - Where Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Technology Meet, Wiley-VCH (1999)
- Robert J. Hunter: Foundations of Colloid Science, Oxford University Press (2002)
- Gert R. Strobl: The Physics of Polymers: Concepts for Understanding Their Structures and Behavior, Springer (2007)
- Jean-Pierre Hansen and Ian R. McDonald: Theory of Simple Liquids, Academic Press (2006)
- Mohamed Daoud and Claudine E. Williams (Eds.): Soft Matter Physics, Springer (1999)
- Pierre Gilles de Gennes: Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics, Cornell University Press (1979)
- Ian W. Hamley: Introduction to Soft Matter, J. Wiley (2000).
- Maurice Kleman and Oleg G. Laverntovich: Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction, Springer (2003)
- Jacob Israelachvili: Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Academic Press (1992)
- Michael Rubinstein and Ralph H. Colby: Polymer Physics, Oxford University Press (2003)
- Gerhard Nägele: Lecture Notes: The Physics of Colloidal Soft Matter (2004)
Course Material
Date | Subject | Lecturer | Ressources |
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17.10.2013 | Motivation and historical overview | Bechinger | ![]() ![]() |
24.10.2013 | Many-particle systems: description of structural properties | Holm | ![]() ![]() |
31.10.2013 | Pair interactions between dispersed particles | Bechinger | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
07.11.2013 | Poisson-Boltzmann theory | Holm | |
14.11.2013 | Introduction to polymer physics | Holm | |
21.11.2013 | Polyelectrolytes | Holm | |
28.11.2013 | Phase transitions: general introduction | Holm | |
05.12.2013 | Experimental techniques | Bechinger | |
12.12.2013 | Phase transitions in 2D systems | Bechinger, Holm | |
19.12.2013 | Xmas lecture: Soft matter food science | Bechinger, Holm | |
09.01.2014 | Depletion interactions I | Bechinger | |
16.01.2014 | Depletion interactions II | Holm | |
23.01.2014 | tba. | Bechinger | |
30.01.2014 | Biological soft matter | Holm | |
06.02.2014 | Lab tour | Bechinger |
Additional Material
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Markus Deserno, Christian Holm, Kurt Kremer.
Molecular dynamics simulations of the cylindrical cell model.
In Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolytes, chapter 2, pages 59–110. Edited by T. Radeva. Part of Surfactant science series, volume 99.
Marcel Decker, New York, 2001.
Work sheets
- Worksheet 1 (zip-File with work sheet and literature): 1D-Random walk, Langevin equation and atomistic revolution
- Slides: Simulating Brownian Motion (1.54 MB)
- Worksheet 2 (zip-File with work sheet and literature): Pair distribution functions and colloids in suspense