PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF SOFT MATERIALS

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

The aim of the course is to generate interest in the chemical physics of soft and organic materials, while also creating quantitative knowledge and understanding of the course content. While a wide range of topics will be covered, specialized topics that will be covered that could be of broad interest to researchers in material science and biophysics in Rice include 1) The behavior of nanoparticles in solutions, 2) The physics and chemistry of synthetic and natural macromolecules, 3) The crystallization of small-molecules including but not limited to pharmaceutical systems and 4) the self-assembly of biomolecules. The objective of the course is to simultaneously give a broad overview of the field of soft matter while also covering specialized topics that will be of interest to the broadest possible range of researchers at Rice.