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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

Soft Matter, Self-organization,
Phase Transitions


No / course unit code


Semester

2M

Type of course

Laboratory


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

120      8

ECTS credits

12


Lecturer:

Dr. Damian Pociecha
Room: R201     Phone extn.: 442     email: pociu@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Physics and Radiochemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

Acquiring knowledge about the structure and physicochemical properties of soft matter (liquid crystals, gels, nano-materials, molecular crystals).

Course description:

The course includes:

- prepearing of the samples - liquid crystals, gels, polymers, molecular crystals, nanoblends, luster or micellar materiale - by means of chemical or physicochemical processes;
- phase transition studies by optical and spectroscopic methods;
- synthesis of liquid crystalline materials, phase identification using polarizing optical microscopy
- studies of phase transitions in liquid crystals using calorimetric technics
- structural studies of smectic and columnar liquid crystalline phases using X-ray diffraction methods
- liquid crystals with polar order - measurements of spontaneous electric polarization
- molecular dynamics in soft matter studies by dielectric spectroscopy
- studies of short-range order in soft matter by static (e.g. X-ray diffraction) and dynamic (e.g. femtosecond spectroscopy) methods
- studies of optical, electrooptical and magnetooptical properties (linear and nonlinear) of soft mater at phase transitions.
Required background:


Completed course of Physical Chemistry and Physics.

Form of assessment:


-

Remarks:

-




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