SoftComp Area 4 Meeting. Universal Aspects in Soft Matter: Slow Dynamics
Workshops
- When
- 2007/12/12 - 2007/12/13
- Place
- San Sebastián
- Organizers
- Prof. J. Colmenero
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In the spirit of SoftComp, looking for universal features of different classes of soft materials is one of the major goals. This inter-area (topical) workshop aimed at discussions of the properties of the slow dynamical processes taking place in different systems including polymers, colloids, biological molecules, micelles, liquid crystals. The main properties of the dynamics related to the glass transition, functionality of proteins yielding mechanism, reptation in polymers of different architectures, ageing etc. were addressed. A very rich variety of systems and phenomena were thus considered; also noteworthy was the number of experimental techniques involved in the papers presented (dielectric and mechanical spectroscopy, NMR, neutron scattering, tracer diffusion, dynamic light scattering including novel developments with laser-speckle imaging, microscopy). From a theoretical point of view, the tremendous progress made in the last few years in this direction was obvious as well. We can say that the workshop was very worthwhile, giving a broad idea of the state of the art of this subject in the different areas of SoftComp.