Ionic microgels a soft particles with unusual responsive properties

by Peter Schurtenberger (Lund University, Sweden)

Monday 25 Nov 2019, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Rome

Aula 2 (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. E.Fermi)

Ionic microgels are popular model systems to investigate the relationship between interparticle interactions and the plethora of self-assembled structures that can form in colloidal suspensions. However, while the responsiveness and softness of these particles result in intriguing properties, they also pose considerable problems when attempting to characterize the response of individual particles to their environment at higher packing fractions. Here a combination of different scattering and imaging techniques can provide in-situ information about the structure of the individual particles as well as that of the assembled arrays on all relevant length scales.