Soft Matter

Concepts, Phenomena, and Applications

5. Polymers

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The additional material is organized according to book sections and it includes links to (review) papers mentioned in the book, videos of different phenomena we discuss (experiments and simulations), as well as links to online lectures that address certain topics in more details.

5.1 The ever broadening field of polymer science

A video on vitrimers with Ludwik Leibler.
From European Patent Office.

An overview of supramolecular polymer chemistry by Bert Meijer.
From Tata Institute for Fundamental Research.

A lecture that covers quite a few topics treated in chapter 5 on polymers.
From ESPResSo. 

5.3 Ideal chains, excluded volume, and Flory argument

A tutorial on the random chain model.
From Ryu’s Polymer Chemistry.

A snapshot of a random walk in 3 dimensions
after 10k steps. From Nathan Clisby.

A lecture on Flory theory by Michael Hore.

5.4 The wormlike chain model for biopolymers

Lectures on the wormlike chain model by Ranjith Padinhateeri (left)
and Prateek Kumar Jha (right, from ITT Roorkee) 

5.6 Polymer brushes

A lecture on polymer brushes by Michael Hore.

5.7 Flory-Huggins mean field theory

A lecture on Energy of Mixing and the Flory-Huggins equation by Michael Hore.

5.8 Response of biopolymer networks

Talk by Gijsje Koenderink on biopolymer networks. From BPPB Virtual Seminars.

5.10  Non-Newtonian rheology of polymer solutions and melts
  • Many interesting videos can be found on the website of McKinley lab. Figure 5.34 is based on stills from some of these videos.

A lecture by Rob Poole on viscoelastic instabilities in cross slots.
From Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

A two-part lecture by Bart Hallmark on the Upper Convected Maxwell model. 
From Dr. Bart’s world of Chemical Engineeing.

Problems
Coding Problems

Our aim is to make coding problems available for all chapters, including this one, by the end of 2025.

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