Soft Condensed Matter PHYS3122

Syllabus for Introduction to Soft Condensed Matter

PHYS3122

Current Lecturer

Prof. Zexin ZHANG   Email: zhangzx@suda.edu.cn

Prof. Kang CHEN     Email: kangchen@suda.edu.cn

Course Time

5th Semester

Lectures: 2 sessions/week, 50min /session. 18 weeks.

Course Description

Introduction to Soft Condensed Matter is an introductory course of soft matter physics for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students who major in physics, chemistry or material science. This course will give an overview of the various aspects of the physics of soft condensed matter, including colloids, polymers, and liquid crystals, etc.

Prerequisites

Thermal Physics (PHYS3102) and Statistical Mechanics (PHYS3127)

Textbooks

Richard A.L. Jones, Soft Condensed Matter, Oxford University Press 2002

Main contents

Week

Teaching Contents

Sessions

Objectives

1

Introduction to the course

1

Learn the concept and features of soft matter

2

Forces, energies and timescales in condensed matter

1+1

Learn the interactions and phase behaviors of gas, liquid and solid. Learn the basics of mechanical response, viscosity and relaxation

3

Phase transitions

2

Learn the basics of phase transition: nucleation, spinodal decomposition and phase separation

4

Phase transitions

2

Learn the basics of phase transition: nucleation, spinodal decomposition and phase separation

5

Colloidal dispersions

2

Learn Brownian motion, forces between colloids and phase behavior of colloids

6

Colloidal dispersions

2

Learn Brownian motion, forces between colloids and phase behavior of colloids

7

Polymers

2

Learn the architecture of polymers, chain statistics and ideal models, dynamics

8

Polymers

2

Learn the architecture of polymers, chain statistics and ideal models, dynamics

9

Polymers

2

Learn the architecture of polymers, chain statistics and ideal models, dynamics

10

Gelation

2

Learn the classes of gel and the theory of gelation

11

Liquid crystal

2

Learn the concepts of liquid crystal phases, the nematic/isotropic transition, topological defects, etc.

12

Liquid crystal

2

Learn the concepts of liquid crystal phases, the nematic/isotropic transition, topological defects, etc.

13

Liquid crystal

2

Learn the concepts of liquid crystal phases, the nematic/isotropic transition, topological defects, etc.

14

Crystallization in polymers

2

Learn the hierarchies of structure and chain-folded crystals

15

Supramolecular self-assembly

2

Learn the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules: bilayers, vesicles, micelles; polymer/polymer mixture; phases of block copolymer

16

Supramolecular self-assembly

2

Learn the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules: bilayers, vesicles, micelles; polymer/polymer mixture; phases of block copolymer

17

Other topics in soft matter

2

Learn biological soft matters: nucleic acids, proteins, membranes

18

Other topics in soft matter

Review of the whole course

1+1

Learn biological soft matters: nucleic acids, proteins, membranes

Summary of the course

Marking Scheme:

Class Performance

Midterm

Final exam

30%

30%

40%



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