Design principles for organization and self-assembly far from equilibrium
Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics provides a useful set of tools to analyze and constrain the behavior of far from equilibrium systems. However, these tools have not yet been broadly applied to aid in the control of many body systems and materials assembled far from equilibrium. In this talk, I will report an application of ideas from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to the problems related to morphological changes in membranes, non-equilibrium self-assembly and more broadly control of material properties far from equilibrium. In many of these contexts, I will show how the material properties can be substantially constrained (and even predicted) using tools from non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Building: | Weiser Hall |
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Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
Tags: | Biosciences, Complex Systems, Food, Free, Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences, physics, Research, seminar, Thermodynamics |
Source: | Happening @ Michigan from The Center for the Study of Complex Systems, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Department of Physics |