Hauptseminar Porous Media SS 2021/Polymer solutions and gels

Date

2021-07-09

Time

14:30

Topic

Physics of polymer solutions and polymer gels

Speaker

Simon Koppenhöfer

Tutor

Rudolf Weeber

Handout

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Contents

In this talk a general introduction to the theory of polymers and gels should be given. Starting with the idea of what polymers are, one should present simple models for polymers such as RW, SAW and simulation methods to study them. Other theories to be presented include the deGennes scaling concepts and blob approach.

Literature

• P. J. Flory.
  Principles of Polymer Chemistry.
  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1953.
  
• P. G. de Gennes.
  Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics.
  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1979.
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• Michael Rubinstein, Ralph H. Colby.
  Polymer Physics.
  Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2003.
  
• Gert Strobl.
  The Physics of Polymers.
  Edition 3.
  Springer, 2007.