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SUMMARY:A study of soft matter systems using scattering techniques
DTSTART:20110520T141500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrey Shalkevich\, Adolphe Merkle Institute – Universit
 y of Fribourg\, Fribourg (Switzerland).\nSoft condensed matter represents 
 a rapidly expanding field of research with focus on three different comple
 mentary areas: colloids\, polymers and surfactants. Soft condensed matter 
 science is not only an attractive area of modern basic research\, but is o
 f considerable technological importance in areas such as\, for example\, t
 he manufacturing of synthetic dispersions for coatings\, ceramics fabricat
 ion\, polymer processing\, corrosion phenomena\, environmental pollution\,
  food technology\, pharmaceutical industry\, biocompatible materials\, and
  biotechnology. A major goal is to understand the formation processes\, st
 ructure\, and functional properties of supramolecular systems that play an
  important role in real life. Here\, I will present results from a study o
 f the structural and dynamic properties of soft matter systems (clay\, org
 anoclay and silica colloids\, polymer nanocomposites) using small-angle ne
 utron (SANS) and X-ray scattering (SAXS) combined with light scattering\, 
 rheological measurements and microscopy. I shall discuss the results in th
 e context of simple models from colloid science and demonstrate that they 
 indeed allow us to interpret the complex charged particles phase behavior.
LOCATION:PH L1 503
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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