Soft
Condensed Matter Group research
concerns non-equilibrium
statistical molecules and thermodynamics, biological logistics,
structures of complex fluids, biochemical pathways in
bacteria, and dynamical systems without equilibrium states. In particular
we study:
-evaporation and condensation processes,
-diffusion in a nanoscale using
fluorescence correlation spectroscopy,
-chemical reactions in polymer
solutions,
-relaxation processes in polymer or
surfactant solutions,
-carbon nanotubes in solutions,
-charged micelles,
-phase separation processes in
polymers, surfactants and liquid crystals,
-langmuir films of liquid crystals and
nanoparticels.
Our
goal is to establish a bunch of physical and chemical tachniques for
the study of biological or physical bioinspired processes both in vitro
and in vivo, and also theoretical tools for the study of system far
from equilibrium.