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Courses - Fall 2024
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11/30/2024 at 05:30 PM
ENMA633
(Perm Req)
Advanced Characterization of Soft Matter Materials
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Materials Science & Engineering department.
Cross-listed with: CHPH633.
Credit only granted for: ENMA633 or CHPH633.
This course is focused on both the theories and experimental works of studying structure and dynamics of soft matter materials using scattering techniques (light, x-ray and neutron scattering). These scattering techniques can probe the structure from a few Angstrom to micrometer and the dynamics from picosecond to second, are thus widely used to reveal the structure-performance relationship of different materials. The course discusses the physics principles of these techniques and explains the details of general theories and commonly used models in characterizing soft matter materials such as polymer, protein, colloidal, thin film, and gel systems.