Types and characteristics of Soft Matter

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Taken from JK's Lecture 1 material and RAL Jones' book.
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Colloidal dispersion Sub micron sized particles of solid or liquid dispersed in a liquid
Polymer melt Size and connectivity of molecules lead to new properties, such as rubber behaviour
Liquid crystals Anisotropic molecule shapes lead to states with a degree of ordering intermediate between a solid and liquid
Surface area to volume ratio of a spherical molecule
Colloids at low shear rate Flows like a liquid
Colloid at high shear rate Behaves like a solid
Polymer definition A large molecule with typically more that 50 individual units
Behaviour of thermoplastics at different temperatures At low temperature it behaves like a solid. At high temperature it softens as its molecules move with greater mobility
The four characteristics of soft matter The length scale Brownian motion Weak short range forces Ability to self assemble into hierarchical structures
Typical size range for a colloid Macroscopic, ie less than a micron in size but larger than nanometers
Implications of the size range One needn't consider every detail about a colloid down to the atomic scale, and may use a "course grain model"
Typical energy range for bonds in soft matter On the level of thermal energy (~kT)
Main type of force involved with soft matter interactions van der Waals' forces
Definition of surface tension Force acting per unit width:
Definition of work done to change the area in surface tension interactions
Explanation of self assembley Soft matter systems move towards an equilibrium which is the most thermodynamically favourable (reducing free energy)
Ingredients of a protein Proteins are made up of polymerise amino acids
Primary structure of a protein This is just a sequence of amino acids
Secondary structures of a protein Alpha helices: a polypeptide chain forms a helix, stabilised by hydrogen bonds Beta sheets: Successive parts of the polypeptide chain form sheets, where neighbouring strands are joined by hydrogen bonds
Tertiary structure of proteins A fully three dimensional arrangement of the polypeptide chain and all other structures
Polypeptide definition Chain molecules made by the reactions of amino acids. They typically have 50-2000 amino acid residues
Hydrogen bond definition A bond formed when a hydrogen atom is covalently bonded to to an electronegative atom. It creates an attractive energy to other atoms intermediate between a van der Waals' force and a full covalent bond
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