Introduction to Soft Condensed Matter Physics - NFPL505
Title: Úvod do fyziky měkkých materiálů
Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2018
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Ivan Krakovský, CSc.
Co-requisite : NFPL502
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Annotation -
Last update: T_KFES (14.05.2012)
In the lecture, description of structure and properties of condensed matter with disordered or partially ordered structure exhibiting large response to small change of external parameters (soft materials) is given. Applications of soft materials, such as complex fluids, liquid crystals, block copolymers, polymer networks or hydrogels in modern technologies are emphasized.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Ivan Krakovský, CSc. (29.04.2020)

Oral exam. It is probable that a significant part of exams might be performed by distant form. That depends on the course of actual situation and information about it will be given in time.

Literature - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Ivan Krakovský, CSc. (03.03.2021)
Doporučená literatura:

G. R. Strobl, Condensed matter physics: crystals, liquids, liquid crystals, and polymers, Springer 2003, ISBN: 9783540003533

D. Tabor, Gases, liquids and solids (and other states of matter), Cambridge University Press 1991, ISBN: 0-521-40667-6

R. Zallen, The Physics of Amorphous Solids, John Wiley & Sons 2004, ISBN: 978-0-471-29941-7

T. Imae, T. Kanaya, M. Furusaka, N. Torikai (Eds.), Neutrons in Soft Matter, Wiley 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-40252-8

R. A. L. Jones, Soft Condensed Matter, Oxford University Press 2002, ISBN: 0–19–850589–2

M. Doi, Soft Matter Physics, Oxford University Press 2013, ISBN: 978–0–19–965295–2

P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge University Press 2000, ISBN: 0-521-43224-3

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Ivan Krakovský, CSc. (14.06.2019)

To get credit for active participation in exercises.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Ivan Krakovský, CSc. (03.03.2021)

1. Structure of amorphous and soft condensed matter

Characteristic space, time and energetic scales in condensed matter.

General statistico-mechanical description of amorphous and soft materials.

Investigation of material structure using X-ray and neutron scattering.

Fundamentals of computer simulation of material structure and properties (Monte Carlo a Molecular Dynamics).

2. Liquid-crystalline state

Basic types of liquid-crystalline order.

Investigation of liquid-crystalline order using physical methods.

3. Polymers

Basic models of space structure of polymer chain.

Statistico-mechanical description of polymer chain in diluted, semi-diluted and concentrated solution, melt and polymer network.

Investigation of structure of polymer materials using X-ray and neutron scattering.

4. Mechanical properties of amorphous and soft condensed matter

Phenomenological theory of viscoelasticity.

Principle of time-temperature superposition.

Description of elastic properties in liquid-crystalline state of matter.

Statistico-mechanical models of crystal elasticity and rubber elasticity of polymers.

5. Dielectric properties of amorphous and soft condensed matter

Phenomenological theory of dielectric response to electric field.

Statistico-mechanical models of dielectric properties of amorphous materials.

Frederiks effect - liquid crystals in modern technologies.