Course Information
Course title
Semester
Department
Instructor
Administrative Curriculum
Number
Teaching Curriculum Number
Fundamental of soft matter
100-1
Institute of Applied Mechanics
Hong-Ren Jiang
543EM4950
AM7153
Class
Credits
3
Full/Half Yr.
Half Yr.
Required/Elective
Elective
Time
Tue678
Remarks
Ceiba Web Server
The upper limit of the number of students:
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1001soft_matter
Table of Core Capabilities and
Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
Course Description
Soft matter is a kind of material characterized by weak
interactions, which is comparable to thermal energy. These
materials are widely found in daily life and biological systems
such as colloids, polymers, cell membrane, DNA and proteins. The
knowledge of soft matter is essential to understand functions of
biomolecules in biophysics and is also important for developing
new bio-sensing techniques or new functional soft materials. This
class starts from the basic physical point of view in several
important aspects of soft matter and then real examples in material
science or in biology will be discussed.
This class starts from the physical point of view in several important aspects
of soft matter, including thermal fluctuation, Brownian motion, colloidal
Course Objective
system and polymer system. And then in each subject, after the physical
properties have been described, real examples in material science or in
biological systems will be discussed to connect the theoretical
understanding to real physical systems.
COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Introduction to soft matter
2. Brownian motion and thermal fluctuation
3. Equilibrium properties of colloidal systems
4. Dynamical properties of colloidal systems
5. Photonic crystal and protein crystallization
6. Statistical physics of single polymers
7. Stretching of single chain and single molecular biophysics
8. Polymer solution
9. Colloid-polymer system
10. Asymmetric material and self-assembly
11. Membrane elasticity
12. Phoretic motion of soft matter
13. Solid –liquid interface
Course Requirement
Office Hours
GENERAL PHYSICS
Friday 13:00-17:00
Soft Condensed Matter,Jones (2002)
Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Molecular and Cell Biology, Taylor &
Francis, (2006)
References
Polymer Solutions: An Introduction to Physical Properties, John Wiley & Sons,
(2002)
Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery,
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1996)
Designated reading
No.
Grading
Item
%
1. Midterm exam
30%
2. Final report
40%
Discussion and
3.
presentation
4.
30%
Explanations for the
conditions
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
Week 1
9/13
Introduction to soft matter
Week 2
9/20
Brownian motion and thermal fluctuation
Week 3
9/27
Equilibrium properties of colloidal systems
Week 4
10/4
Dynamical properties of colloidal systems
Week 5
10/11 Photonic crystal and protein crystallization
Week 6
10/18 Statistical physics of single polymers
Week 7
10/25 Stretching of single chain and single molecular biophysics
Week 8
11/1
Polymer solution
Week 9
11/8
Midterm exam
Week 10
11/15 Colloid-polymer system
Week 11
11/22 Asymmetric material and self-assembly
Week 12
11/29 Phoretic motion of soft matter
Week 13
12/6
Week 14
12/13 Invite talk: mircofluidics
Week 15
12/20 Invite talk: 3D cell culture
Week 16
12/27 Student presentation
Week 17
1/3
Solid –liquid interface
Student presentation