in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Institute of Solid State Research (IFF)

Research Activities

• Intramolecular dynamics of linear biological macromolecules (DNA, Proteins, ...)
   
• Structure of polyelectrolyte systems
   
• Structure and dynamics of complex fluids confined in thin films
   
  • Alkanes
  • Semiflexible chains
  
   
• Adsorption and self-organization of molecules at interfaces
   
  • Alkanes
  • Polyelectrolytes
  • Molecular brushes
  • Copolymers
  • Semiflexible chain molecules
  
   
• Non-equilibrium properties of soft matter systems
   
  • Polymers in external fields (shear flow, elongational flow, electric fields, etc.)
  • Molecular dynamics simulations of colloids in shear flow
  
   
• Development of advanced computer simulation methods
   
  • Constant temperature molecular dynamics
  • Constant pressure molecular dynamics

  Poincare surfaces of sections of a harmonic oscillator. The oscillator is coupled to an additional degree of freedom by agumenting the phase space.