Self-assembly and Hydrodynamics at Interfaces
Abstract
In this talk, the speaker will first present a simple review of self-organizing behaviors in soft materials, and then examine in detail the physical mechanism of self assembly / self organization in confined soft materials on the basis of some examples of our recent works on colloidal assembly in polymer templates and lateral organization in inclusion-membrane complexes. He will then try to discuss how to design and control the ordering of these systems in confinement (e.g., via using polymer and/or biomembrane as templates), and how to understand the influence of the competition between the excluded volume effect of colloidal particles and the conformational entropic effect of (polymer or lipid) chains on complex structural organization.
About the speaker
Prof. Ma Yu-qiang received his Ph.D. in Physics from Nanjing University in 1993. Currently, he is a professor at Department of Physics of Nanjing University, and is also a Principal Investigator of National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures. In 1999, Prof Ma received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in China, and in 2001, he was appointed as a Chang-Jiang Professor by the Ministry of Education in China. Prof. Ma's current research interests are in area of physical understanding of self assembly/self organization in soft matter. His recent projects include phase transitions and dynamics in complex fluids such as colloid and polymers, lateral organization in protein-membrane complexes, and nonequilibrium self-organization in living soft matter such as cellular cytoskeleton and self-propelled particles.
