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- 1 SEAS Faculty - Selected publications on soft matter and complex fluids
- 2 Applied Physics 225 : Introduction to Soft Matter.
- 3 Applied Physics 226 : Introduction to Soft Matter - Capillarity and Wetting
- 4 Miscellany from the 2008-2009 classes
- 5 List of all pages in the wiki
- 6 Most popular pages in the wiki.
- 7 Vocabulary page for APPHY 225 Fall 2009
- 8 Foundational publications by B.V. Derjaguin
SEAS Faculty - Selected publications on soft matter and complex fluids
Within applied physics in SEAS a number of faculty conduct fundamental research on soft matter and complex fluids. They study materials highly deformable by externally applied stresses, electric or magnetic fields, or thermal fluctuations, including polymers, liquid crystals, fluids and complex fluids, surfactants, colloids, foams, and emulsions; they study fluid interfaces and avalanches in granular materials and the non-equilibrium dynamics of disordered systems.
Over the past several years a large number of publications have evolved from this research. The links in the following table are examples (about 270 recent papers!):
| Joanna Aizenberg
(1-8) |
Michael Brenner
(9-34) |
Philippe Cluzel
(35-42) |
| Jene Golovchenko
(43) |
L. Mahadevan
(44-79) |
Vinny Manoharan
(227-232) |
| Daniel Needleman
(80-87) |
David Nelson
(88-94) |
Peter Pershan
(95-116) |
| Sharad Ramanathan
(269-270) |
Frans Spaepen
(117-129) |
David Weitz
(130-184) |
| Outside SEAS | George Whitesides
(185-208) |
Howard Stone
(233-268) |
| Seth Fraden
(271-291) |
And others
(209-226, 292-297) |
These publications illuminate fundamental concepts in soft matter and complex fluids. One of our goals for courses in soft matter and complex fluids is to prepare students to contribute to this high level of research. (The numbers of the references are used to group papers on similar topics in soft matter to be used in APPHY 225, See below.)
Applied Physics 225 : Introduction to Soft Matter.
Ian D. Morrison
Introduction to soft condensed matter, or “complex fluids,” including polymers, surfactants, emulsions, foams, and biological structures. Emphasis is on physical principles that govern bulk behavior. Students will understand the concepts, experimental techniques, and open questions. Prerequisite: Knowledge of thermodynamics and basic statistical mechanics and some familiarity with phase diagrams and differential equations.
- Textbooks for AP225 are:
- Soft condensed matter by R.A.L. Jones; Oxford University Press: New York; 2002
- Structured fluids: Polymers, colloids, surfactants by T. A. Witten (with P. A. Pincus); Oxford University Press: New York; 2004
- Class notes and additions by the students in APPHY 225 in 2008 were combined to create this wiki. Succeeding classes add more content.
- The following show links between the topics in APPHY 225 and the soft-matter wiki:
| Schedule | Topic |
|---|---|
| Topic 1 | General Introduction |
| Topic 2 | Surface Forces |
| Topic 3 | Capillarity and wetting |
| Topic 4 | Polymers and polymer solutions |
| Topic 5 | Surfactants |
| Topic 6 | Phases and Phase Diagrams |
| Topic 7 | Charged interfaces |
| Topic 8 | Thin "soft" films and colloidal stability |
| Topic 9 | Viscosity, elasticity, and viscoelasticity |
| Topic 10 | Emulsions and foams |
| Topic 11 | Soft matter - Course review |
- Each student in APPHY 225 in the fall of 2008 also prepared a final wiki entry:
- The fall 2009 class will use the SEAS publications above as the basis for soft-matter wiki entries. The publications are grouped according to the lecture topics:
| Lecture topic | Recent publications from SEAS et alii (See bibliography above) |
|---|---|
| General introduction | 35,36, 44, 47, 72, 88, 92, 119, 155, 166, 170, 179, 180, 278 |
| Surface forces | 32, 33, 59, 70, 93, 98, 100, 104, 106, 110, 114, 116, 117, 118, 127, 128, 129, 173, 204, 225, 288 |
| Capillarity and wetting | 3, 4, 13, 16, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 34, 49, 53, 55, 62, 63, 64, 66, 71, 74, 77, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 105, 112, 116, 144, 149, 150, 158, 185, 186, 193, 196, 197, 200, 201, 208, 209, 211, 213, 215, 217, 218, 220, 221, 224, 226, 233, 236, 243, 245, 254, 256 |
| Polymers and polymer solutions | 31,43, 48, 80, 94, 133, 147 |
| Surfactants and spontaneous ordering | 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, 17, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 56, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 109, 111, 113, 137, 139, 172, 184, 198, 199, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 212, 214, 216, 219, 227, 228, 229, 232, 272, 276, 277, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 289, 290 |
| Equilibria and phase diagrams | 10, 11, 28, 89, 90, 91, 103, 107, 108, 115, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 134, 176, 177, 178, 181, 222, 230, 252, 265, 271, 275, 279, 291 |
| Charged interfaces | 7, 8, 12, 26, 27, 133a, 240, 241, 273 |
| Colloidal stability | 20, 29, 52, 131, 141, 157, 161, 163, 165, 167, 280 |
| Rheology and viscoelasticity | 18, 23, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 54, 58, 60, 61, 65, 67, 68, 73, 75, 76, 78, 135, 136, 138, 142, 145, 148, 152,153, 156, 159, 160, 169, 174, 175, 183, 192, 21, 244, 247, 250, 259, 260 |
| Foams | 14, 30, 57, 69, 162, 168, 187, 188, 190, 191, 194, 195, 223, 235, 237, 238, 239, 242, 246, 248, 249, 253, 257, 263, 274 |
| Emulsions | 72, 130, 131, 132, 138, 143, 146, 164, 171, 189, 231, 234, 251, 255, 258, 261, 262, 264, 266, 267, 268 |
| Summary and review |
Those entries can be found here:
Applied Physics 226 : Introduction to Soft Matter - Capillarity and Wetting
Ian D. Morrison
This introductory course considers phenomena strongly influenced by surface tensions, high curvatures, thin films, diffusion, adsorption, or wetting, which are variously mobile, dynamic, polymeric, transient, or fragile. Emphasis is on the physics, thermodynamics, rheological and scaling laws that govern bulk behavior.
- Textbook for AP226 is:
- Capillarity and wetting phenomena by P.-G. de Gennes, F. Brochard-Wyatt and D. Quéré.
- Class notes are saved as pdf files on the iSites page for APPHY 226.
- Each student in APPHY 226 in the spring of 2009 prepared a weekly entry for the soft-matter wiki, usually based on a SEAS publication (a total of about 130 papers!):
| Tom Alimsijah | Donald Aubrecht | Alexander Epstein |
| Nefeli Georgoulia | Sung Hoon Kang | Tom Kodger |
| Sorell Massenburg | Lidiya Mishchenko | Nan Niu |
| Tony Orth | Naveen Sinha | Scott Tsai |
| Zach Wissner-Gross |
- A take-home final was given.
