MSE 5235

Design of Soft Materials

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog.

Soft materials have unique properties, exploited widely by nature and industry.  They are made from a variety of building blocks, including small molecules, macromolecules, and particles.  These basic constituents can be arranged into a vast range of microstructures that determine their macroscopic material properties.  This course will explore this broad material space, identify unifying scientific ideas, and explore practical strategies for their design.   We will combine a top-down approach, which emphasizes their macroscopic behavior, with a bottom-up one, that describes their microscopic structure and dynamics. 

When Offered Spring.

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