CRC-colloquia

Scientific colloquia of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1585 MultiTrans is a great platform (open to the public) where invited speakers, lead scientists in their respective fields, present new findings of the transport phenomena in nanoscale confinement, functional structured materials and related areas. Each colloquium is divided into a lecture and a following question session.

Friday, 17 May 2024
10:30 o'clock ZOOM and Lecture Hall: H18, NWII

Prof. Thalappil Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India

Microdroplets for Material Science?

Work in the recent past has shown that new phenomena occur in microdroplets of common solvents. Often, these are related to reaction acceleration. Our work has shown that unusual materials can be synthesized using microdroplets in millisecond timescales. I will illustrate this with various examples involving nanoparticles, functional materials and devices. I will conclude this presentation with an outline of our most recent work on the spontaneous weathering of minerals forming nanoparticles in charged water microdroplets.

Prof. T. Pradeep

Prof. Denis Morineau - Liquids under Nanoscale Confinement: How Different are they?Hide

Monday, 05 February 2024
12:00 o'clock ZOOM and Lecture Hall: H18, NWII

Prof. Denis Morineau, Institute of Physics of Rennes, CNRS, University of Rennes, France

Liquids under Nanoscale Confinement: How Different are they?

Spatially confined fluids in nanometer-sized geometry exhibit unique fundamental properties that have no equivalent in corresponding bulk systems. In order to illustrate this statement, I will present an overview of studies we have conducted the recent years on different types of liquids, including binary mixtures, water and aqueous solutions, when confined in carefully designed nanoporous materials.The impacts of confinement on their thermodynamics, structure and dynamics over a wide range of time scales will be discussed based on the combination of experimental and numerical methods, encompassing temporal and spatial windows that range from the molecular to the macroscopic scales.

Snapshot of a microphase separated binary liquid confined in a silica pore Hide

Snapshot of a microphase separated binary liquid confined in a silica pore