Physics of Soft and Biological Matter 2 SS 2014
Overview
- Type
- Lecture (2 SWS) and Tutorials (every 2nd week)
- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Christian Holm and Prof. Dr. Clemens Bechinger (Lecture); Dr. Owen Hickey (Tutorials)
- Course language
- English
- Location and Time
- April 10th, 2014 - July 17th, 2014
- Lecture: Thu, 14:00 - 15:30 (Seminar room ICP 1.079, Allmandring 3)
- Tutorials: Every second week on Thursday, 08:00-09:30 in CIP pool 1.033, ICP, Allmandring 3
- Prerequisites
- B. Sc. 5. Semester or Master, and attendee of the part 1 in WS 2013/2014
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. The course focuses on Brownian motion, hydrodynamic interactions, and electrostatic and electrokinetic phenomena in soft matter. 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 | Resources |
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10.04.2014 | Theory of Brownian Motion | Holm | Lecture Notes (2.26 MB) |
17.04.2014 | Experiments for the determination of Diffusion I | Bechinger | |
24.04.2014 | Experiments for the determination of Diffusion II | Bechinger | |
08.05.2014 | Hydrodynamic Interactions I | Holm | Lecture Notes (4.01 MB) |
15.05.2014 | Hydrodynamic Interactions II | Holm | |
22.05.2014 | Active Brownian Motion I | Bechinger | |
05.06.2014 | Active Brownian Motion II | Bechinger | |
26.06.2014 | Ratchets, Stochastic Resonance | Bechinger/Holm | |
03.07.2014 | Lab Tour Bechinger | Bechinger | |
10.07.2014 | Elektrokinetics I | Holm | |
17.07.2014 | Elektrokinetics II | Holm |
Additional Material
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Markus Deserno, Christian Holm.
Cell-model and Poisson-Boltzmann-theory: A brief introduction.
In Electrostatic Effects in Soft Matter and Biophysics, pages 27–50. Edited by C. Holm, P. Kékicheff, R. Podgornik. Part of NATO Science Series II - Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, volume 46.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Nl, 2001.
[PDF] (262 KB) [DOI]
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S. Alexander, P. M. Chaikin, P. Grant, G. J. Morales, P. Pincus, D. Hone.
Charge Renormalization, Osmotic-Pressure, And Bulk Modulus Of Colloidal Crystals - Theory.
The Journal of Chemical Physics 80(11):5776–5781, 1984.
[PDF] (706 KB)
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M. Aubouy, Emmanuel Trizac, Lyderic Bocquet.
Effective charge versus bare charge: an analytical estimate for colloids in the infinite dilution limit.
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 36(22):5835–5840, 2003.
[PDF] (106 KB)
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Jean-Louis Barrat, Jean-Pierre Hansen.
Basic Concepts fo Simple and Complex Liquids.
Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-521-78953-2.
Extract on van-der-Waals equation of state (2.24 MB)
Work sheets
Tutorial 1: 16.04.2014 9:45 a.m. Worksheet 1 / TCL script for ESPResSo Solution: Worksheet 1 Solution
Tutorial 2: 09.05.2014 9:45 a.m. Worksheet 2 / https://kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-28487/273_science_2000.pdf?sequence=1 due May 22nd 2 p.m.
Tutorial 3: 23.05.2014 9:45 a.m.
Tutorial 4: 06.06.2014 9:45 a.m.
Tutorial 5: 04.07.2014 9:45 a.m.
Tutorial 6 (Discussion only-No new problem set): 18.07.2014 9:45 a.m.