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| Book | PreJuSER-510 |
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2008
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
Jülich
ISBN: 978-3-89336-517-3
Abstract: Soft matter is ubiquitous in a vast range of technological applications and is of fundamental relevance in such diverse fields as chemical, environmental, and food industry as well as life sciences. Over the past years, soft matter science has been largely extended in its scope from more traditional areas such as colloids and polymers to the study of biological systems, soft nanoscale materials, and the development of novel composites and microfluidic devices. Soft and biological materials share fundamental structural and dynamical features including a rich variety of morphologies and non-equilibrium phenomena, self-organisation, an unusual friction-dominated flow dynamics, and a high sensitivity to external fields. These properties emerge from the co operative interplay of many degrees of freedom, with spatio-temporal correlations that can span a huge range from nano- to millimetres and nanoseconds to days. The key requirements for the advancement in the field of these highly complex soft materials are: $\bullet$ The development of novel experimental techniques to study properties of individual components in processes and the co operative behavior of many interacting constituents. The synthesis of complex materials, self-organized and biomimetic systems with novel or unusual properties will broaden the spectrum of applications. $\bullet$ The exploration of advanced theoretical and computer simulation methods that span the large range of time and length scales and allow to cope with an increasing complexity of molecular constituents. Existing methods need to be extended and new approaches are required to describe systems far from equilibrium, e.g., in life sciences and material processing. $\bullet$ Structural and novel functional properties of soft and biological materials need to be studied invoking self-organization and hierarchical structure formation, entropic particle interactions and fluid-like aspects of biological materials such as vesicles and cells. $\bullet$ The unusual dynamics of complex fluids requires special approaches to gain insight into diffusion transport properties, rheology and mesoscopic flow behavior, which are influenced by a delicate interplay of hydrodynamic interactions, thermal flllctliations, and external fields. The present course is dedicated to $\textbf{Soft Matter: From Synthetic to Biological Materials}$, a subject rarely treated in textbooks. It covers a broad spectrum of experimental and theoretical techniques and concepts, and addresses colloidal systems and biological materials on very different length and time scales. Due to the restricted time span for the lectures, not all topics can be treated to full extent. Notwithstanding this limitation, the school provides an introduction into and a survey on the broad field of Soft Matter systems. [...]
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