Jan Vermant: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2018

Name Prof. Dr. Jan Vermant
FieldSoft Materials
Address
Professur für Weiche Materialien
ETH Zürich, HCI H 503
Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10
8093 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 633 33 55
E-mailjan.vermant@mat.ethz.ch
URLhttp://www.softmat.mat.ethz.ch
DepartmentMaterials
RelationshipFull Professor

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
327-0410-00LProjects in Statistical Thermodynamics Restricted registration - show details 2 credits2SJ. Vermant, P. Derlet
AbstractIndependent study of selected topics in statistical thermodynamics (small projects with presentations)
Objective(1) Supplement to and illustration of the course "Foundations of Materials Physics A"
(2) Deeper understanding by independent study of selected topics in statistical thermodynamics (small projects with presentations)
Content1. Thermal Engines.
2. Boltzmann- life and work.
3. Phase Diagrams of Multicomponent Systems.
4. How does a fuel cell work?
5. Magnetic Systems: the Ising Model.
6. The Gibbs-Thomson effect or "how difficult it is to be small".
7. Diffusion in fluids and soft solids: Fluctuations and motion.
8. Elastic response of soft solids: Entropic vs energetic elasticity.
9. The ant in the labyrinth: A first approach to diffusion and transport in disordered media.
10. Up or down? Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics illustrated for two-state systems.
11. Real solids: Thermodynamics in equilibrium.
12. Batteries: Kinetics and irreversible thermodynamics.
327-1206-00LSoft Materials I5 credits4GJ. Vermant, A. D. Schlüter
AbstractPart 1 of the course (Spring semester) focuses on the chemistry of the building blocks and to learn how structures can be manipulated by chemistry, composition and phase behaviour. The goal is to learn what can be done, both in an idealized research environment and in the realm of industrial scale production.
ObjectiveThe goal of the two courses combined is to present the students with a toolbox for materials engineers to design, study and make soft materials.
ContentWhere physics, chemistry and biology meet engineering.
Lecture notesCopies of the slides and a set of lecture notes will be provided.
LiteratureFor the first and the second part combined there are a few books of recommended reading, but their is no textbook that we will rigorously follow.

Introduction to Soft Matter: Synthetic and Biological Self-Assembling Materials Paperback by Ian W. Hamley
ISBN-13: 978-0470516102 ISBN-10: 0470516100

Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants
by Thomas A. Witten, Philip A. Pincus (OXford)
ISBN-13: 978-0199583829 ISBN-10: 019958382X