Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Prerequisites: CLL121
Overlaps with: PYL202
Description
Intermolecular forces. Statistical mechanical approach to thermodynamic potentials. Characterization of free energy curves. Entropically driven phase separation, nucleation and spontaneous phase separations in complex fluids. Characterization of structures: Minkowski functionals. Phase separation in confinement. Mean field theories for phase transition, their break-down, introduction to field theory. Thermodynamics of colloidal systems and polymers.
Prerequisite Tree
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CLL773-152[CLL773]
CLL773-152 --> CLL121-152[CLL121]
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