CHEME 5235

Design of Soft Materials

Course Description

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Soft materials have unique properties, exploited widely by nature and industry. They are made from a variety of building blocks, including small molecules, macromolecules, and particles. These basic constituents can be arranged into a vast range of microstructures that determine their macroscopic material properties. This course will explore this broad material space, identify unifying scientific ideas, and explore practical strategies for their design. A top-down approach, which emphasizes their macroscopic behavior, will be combined with a bottom-up approach, that describes their microscopic structure and dynamics.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: working knowledge of thermodynamics/statistical mechanics at the level of MSE 3030, CHEME 3130, PHYS 4488, or CHEM 3900. Introductory level physics at the level of PHYS 1112 and PHYS 2213. Basic scientific programming at the level of CS 1110 or CS 1112.

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