Types and characteristics of Soft Matter

Colloidal dispersion

Polymer melt

Liquid crystals

Surface area to volume ratio of a spherical molecule

Colloids at low shear rate

Colloid at high shear rate

Polymer definition

Behaviour of thermoplastics at different temperatures

The four characteristics of soft matter

Typical size range for a colloid

Implications of the size range

Typical energy range for bonds in soft matter

Main type of force involved with soft matter interactions

Definition of surface tension

Definition of work done to change the area in surface tension interactions

Explanation of self assembley

Ingredients of a protein

Primary structure of a protein

Secondary structures of a protein

Tertiary structure of proteins

Polypeptide definition

Hydrogen bond definition