Since P. G. de Gennes' Nobel lecture in 1991, the concept of Soft Matter has been significantly expanded to include NEW directions & dimensions.
critical mixture, nanocolloids, food, vitrification, high pressure
INSTITUTE of HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS PAS _ IHPP PAS
X-PressMatter Laboratory in Celestynów
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Editor: Sylwester Janusz Rzoska
Guest Editor: Agata Angelika Sojecka
Soft Matter covers so many different materials that it is impossible to test all of them. The subsets of Soft Matter we have selected for our research include: glass-forming systems, colloid and nanocolloids, critical mixtures, biological systems, model food & pharmaceuticals.
On the one hand, Soft matter poses a challenge to science due to its yet undiscovered, mysterious properties.
On the other hand, it has a huge potential for applications in active matter, memory matter, bioactive systems, energy storage, or displays.
Soft Matter is also used as food additives, cosmetics, and detergents.
Soft Matter as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge is challenging for physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, biophysicists, manomaterials scientists, ...
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♦ Studies focused on obtaining a coherent picture of previtreous changes in dynamic & thermodynamic
properties in glass-forming systems.
♦ Phase equilibria & related pretransitional phenomena studied by the innovative visual method with photo-registration and new implementations of ‘linear’ and ‘nonlinear’ dielectric spectroscopies, also under pressure.
♦ Studies of liquid crystalline materials under the endogenic & exogenic impacts focused on the influence of multimolecular pretransitional fluctuations.
♦ Unique properties of glassy materials emerging by high-pressure & high-temperature annealing in the amorphous solid state.
The application target is related to solid, glassy materials for the new generation of batteries.
The Key Topics of our Research on Soft Matter:
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New model descriptions directly inspired and validated by advanced experimental studies.
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Innovative distortions-sensitive data processing enable a "subtle" phenomenal insight.
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Studies for temperature and pressure paths, with in situ scanning up to extreme GPa pressure limits.
What makes our Research Unique?
SOCIOPHYSICS
PHYSICS of CRITICAL PHENOMENA
PHYSICS of SEMICONDUCTORS
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Research Achievements
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"Show Yourself in Science."
27th September 2024
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the 3rd Polish-Slovenian International Seminar on Soft Matter
(The 3rd PSIS on Soft Matter)
which will be held on:
26th-28th September 2024
* 1. Popularization of knowledge, especially regarding Soft Matter Physics and the impact of High Pressure
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* 3. Promoting knowledge about personalities of the world of science
* 4. Supporting co-organization/ organization of the "Show Yourself in Science" Workshop & International Seminar on Soft Matter
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Soft Matter systems have common features, such as the dominance of elements or local structures on the mesoscale, combined with their relatively weak interactions, which turns out to be sufficient to obtain a tendency to self-organize with even a small change in parameters. This additionally leads to extraordinary sensitivity to even minor endogenous and exogenous factors, e.g., nanoparticles and pressure. In the case of the latter, relatively low pressures P~1 GPa, or even much lower ones, can lead to phases/states with exotic features, often persisting after decompression.
Worth stressing, that for "classical hard matter" systems, a pressure similar to that at the Earth's core (~300 GPa) is typically required, and the resulting "exotic" properties most often disappear upon decompression.
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