Date&Time: July 12 (Thu) 2018, 14:00-16:00 Venue: Kyoto University Katsura Campus A4-115 Title: Multidimensional characterization of colloidal nanoparticles Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Peukert, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Abstract: An important worldwide trend in particle technology is the requirement to understand systems of ever increasing complexity. Available techniques for particle characterization are predominantly focused on size characterization. Even simultaneous size and shape characterization is still an unresolved major challenge. Beyond size, also shape, particle surface and the particle’s inner structure come into focus. These structural features are closely related to biological, chemical, electronic, mechanical and optical properties of the particles opening vast opportunities in many fields of application including nanoelectronics, photonics, energy conversion […]

Date&Time: July 5 (Thu) 2018, 14:00-16:00 Venue: Kyoto University Katsura Campus A4-115 Title: Structural Crossover in Hard Sphere Mixtures and other Liquids: Theory and Experiment Speaker: Prof. Robert Evans, University of Bristol, UK Abstract: For binary fluid mixtures of spherical particles in which the two species are sufficiently different in size, the dominant wavelength of oscillations common to all three partial pair correlation functions h ij (r) is predicted to change from roughly the diameter of the large species to that of the small species along a sharp structural crossover line in the mixture phase diagram. From particle-resolved experiments on binary hard-sphere-like colloids in 3 dimensions we demonstrate that crossover […]