Supplementary books*)

Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces (Physics Textbook)

"Self Assembly: The Science of Things That Put Themselves Together" by J.Pelesko, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2007

*)all necessary information will be provided in the form of research papers and relevant pages from the books. Book titles are provided for your reference only.

Self-Assembly

  Date Title (link to lecture slides) Materials Exercises
Lecture 1 11-Feb-2010      
Lecture 2 15-Feb-2010      
Lecture 3 18-Feb-2010
     
Lecture 4 22-Feb-2010
     
Lecture 5 25-Feb-2010      
Lecture 6 4-Mar-2010      
Lecture 7 11-Mar-2010      
Lecture 8 3-May-2010 Principles of self-assembly

G.Whitesides and M. Boncheva "Beyond molecules"

G.Whitesides et al., "Forming electrical networks"

 
Lecture 9 5-May-2010 Models of self-assembly

Pelesko "Models of self-assembly"

Snir and Kamien "Entropically driven helix formation"

 
Lecture 10 10-Mar-2010 Surfactant self-assembly    
Lecture 11 12-May-2010 SAM and LB films: structure and applications    
Lecture 12 17-May-2010 Self-assembly of spheres and rods. Liquid crystallinity

Jones "Colloids self-assembly"

Jones "Liquid Cristallinity"

 
Lecture 13 17-May-2010
Lecture 14 19-May-2010
Dynamic self-assembly: creating order in out-of-equilibrium systems .

Pelesko "Dynamic self-assembly"

Prigogine "Exploring Complexity"

 
Lecture 15 26-May-2010
DNA self-assembly

Pelesko "DNA self-assembly"

Seeman "2D array of Holliday junctions"

Seeman "DNA Double Crossover"

 

 

Exam

The examination will take place on June 12th, starting from 9am.

The examination is taken orally. Preparation time 30 min, exam time 30 min.

The examination questions can be found here.

You are not allowed to use any notes, books or computer during the preparation. You will need a calculator to perform necessary numerical estimates.

 

Please contact me if you have any questions: lg@nano.aau.dk

 


 

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