Course
Submitted by admin_sps on 9 March, 2016 - 16:54
Prerequisites:
P301 (Statistical Mechanics)
Syllabus:
(42 Lectures + 14 Tutorial)
- Introduction: Basic phenomenology of soft condensed matter systems, intermolecular forces, viscoelasticity, ordering in softmatter, glass transition, phase separation
- Diffusion processes: Fick’s laws, Diffusion Equation, Random walks, Brownian motion, Langevin and Fokker-Plank equations
- Colloids: Stability of colloidal systems, Poisson-Boltzmann theory, DLVO theory, Depletion interactions, Electro-kinetic effects
- Polymers: model systems and chain statistics, polymers in solvents and melts, viscoelasticity, gelation
- Liquid crystals: Introduction, liquid crystal phases and transitions, Distorted nematic ordering, response to electric and magnetic fields
- Amphiphiles: Introduction, microphase separation in block copolymers and in solutions of amphiphiles, aggregation and self-assembly of amphiphiles
Reference Books:
- Principles of Condensed Matter Physics by P. M. Chaikin and T. C. Lubensky
- Soft Condensed Matter by R. A. L. Jones
- Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants by T. Witten
- Introduction to Soft Matter: Polymers, Colloids, Amphiphiles and Liquid Crystals by I. W. Hamley
- Soft Matter Physics by M. Klemanand and O. D. Lavrentovich
- Colloidal Dispersions by W. B. Russel, D. A. Saville and W. R. Showalter
- Dynamics of Colloids by J. K. G. Dont
- Intermolecular and Surface Forces: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems by J. Israelachvili
- Introduction to Liquid Crystals by P. J. Collings and M. Hird
- Polymer solutions -- an introduction to physical properties by I. Teraoka
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