The Future of "Soft Matter Physics"

[AD MCFC]

Hi all,

I am trying to learn more about this field. Whether you work or have worked in this area or not, I would like to know where Soft Matter is going in terms of theory and applications.

Thanks,
A.D.

*I apologize in advance if there are already many threads specifically addressing this or if the aggregate of a selection of threads sufficiently addresses this.*

 

[berkeman]

Hi all,

I am trying to learn more about this field. Whether you work or have worked in this area or not, I would like to know where Soft Matter is going in terms of theory and applications.

Thanks,
A.D.

*I apologize in advance if there are already many threads specifically addressing this or if the aggregate of a selection of threads sufficiently addresses this.*

Could you please post some links to the reading you have been doing about this subject so far? Thanks.

 

[AD MCFC]

Could you please post some links to the reading you have been doing about this subject so far? Thanks.

Hello,

I started out with wikipedia, but have then been looking at university soft matter research groups and other material. WIthin those links I have skimmed through some of their publications.

Here are a few links:

https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/icmcs/research-themes/soft-matter-physics
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1991/gennes-lecture.pdf
https://physics.georgetown.edu/research/soft-condensed-matter
https://www.physics.gatech.edu/research/activities/soft-matter
http://www.softmatterworld.org/conferences/index.html#conf2.html

Thanks,
AD

 

[TeethWhitener]

You’ll have to be more specific. Soft matter is an enormous field. Are there any specific areas or problems that interest you?

 

[AD MCFC]

I am interested in applications of SMP in electronics and mechanical/aerospace applications. I have read one paper on optical shock waves in silica aerogels from the University of Rome. I thought it was really neat and would like to find more things like that. However, I am also eager on just learning about other applications. So all information on it is welcome really .

Please let me know what further information is needed to render this discussion more useful to the general community. I apologize for my poor forum mannerisms.

 

[ZapperZ]

I am interested in applications of SMP in electronics and mechanical/aerospace applications. I have read one paper on optical shock waves in silica aerogels from the University of Rome.

"Optical shock waves in aerogels"? Isn't this just Cerenkov radiation?

Zz.