TY  - CONF
AU  - Richter, Dieter
TI  - Passion for Soft Matter and Life Sciences: Research with Neutrons
M1  - FZJ-2024-01895
PY  - 2024
AB  - My talk will start, asking what is soft matter and how does it relate to us? Following DeGennes we’ ll go on a journey through the wonderland of Soft Matter. We shall realize that Soft Matter is all around us from plastics and food to cleaning agents and cosmetics  from housing to health and technology. I’ll display the underlaying principles and challenges and emphasize the unique role of neutrons for discovering structure and dynamics. I’ll address examples for self-assembly, the important role of topological constraints in polymer melts, ring polymers and under confinement. Then I’ll switch to biological systems and demonstrate that beyond the key and lock principle for biological function also dynamics plays and important role. At the end I’ll show how a polymer spring in an antibody drives the motions towards docking sites.
T2  - KFN Neutron Webinar: Monthly lectures on neutron research - informative, inspiring and interconnecting
CY  - , online (online)
M2  - online, online
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)31
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1023909
ER  -