A study of soft matter systems using scattering techniques
Event details
| Date | 20.05.2011 |
| Hour | 14:15 |
| Speaker | Dr. Andrey Shalkevich, Adolphe Merkle Institute – University of Fribourg, Fribourg (Switzerland). |
| Location |
PH L1 503
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Soft condensed matter represents a rapidly expanding field of research with focus on three different complementary areas: colloids, polymers and surfactants. Soft condensed matter science is not only an attractive area of modern basic research, but is of considerable technological importance in areas such as, for example, the manufacturing of synthetic dispersions for coatings, ceramics fabrication, polymer processing, corrosion phenomena, environmental pollution, food technology, pharmaceutical industry, biocompatible materials, and biotechnology. A major goal is to understand the formation processes, structure, and functional properties of supramolecular systems that play an important role in real life. Here, I will present results from a study of the structural and dynamic properties of soft matter systems (clay, organoclay and silica colloids, polymer nanocomposites) using small-angle neutron (SANS) and X-ray scattering (SAXS) combined with light scattering, rheological measurements and microscopy. I shall discuss the results in the context of simple models from colloid science and demonstrate that they indeed allow us to interpret the complex charged particles phase behavior.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- ICMP
Contact
- Prof. László Forró, Dr. Andrzej Sienkiewicz