MSEN 250: Soft Matter
Course Description
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Structure, properties and function of various classes of soft matter including colloids, polymers, amphiphils, liquid crystals and biomacromolecules; basic concepts of viscoelasticity, glass transition, liquid-liquid and liquid-solid transitions and gelation; forces acting between mesoscopic objects; supramolecular self-assembly in soft condensed matter.Prerequisites:Grade of C or better inCHEMĀ 120;MSENĀ 201, or concurrent enrollment.