Speaker: Elena Govorun (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Venue: Room 346,Building 25,Wushan Campus

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Lecture 1

Topic: Self-Assembly in Amphiphilic Polymer and Polymer Surfactant Systems

Time: 14:30, January 10, 2019

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Lecture 2

Topic: Methods and Applications of Statistical Physics of Macromolecules

Time: 16:00, January 10, 2019

Abstract: A number of polymers are locally amphiphilic, in particular, those are amphiphilic homopolymers and molecular brushes with side chains of different types. Such macromolecules as well as polymer-surfactant mixtures can self-assemble into complex morphologies in solution or melt.

In the lecture, a theoretical consideration of self-assembly for single macromolecules, polymer solutions and polymer brushes will be presented in terms of the dimer solvophobic-solvophilic model of amphiphilic monomer units and surfactant moleсules. For single amphiphilic macromolecules, the morphological diagrams and conditions of vesicle formation will be analyzed in parallel with discussing the results of computer simulations.

Biography:Elena N Govorun received her PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Chair of Polymer and Crystal Physics. Her research interests are in the field of theory of macromolecular systems, in particular, self-assembly phenomena in complex systems containing polymers and surfactants, diffusion in polymers, and macromolecular reactions.