2021
Friday 5 February 11:00 (online)
Giuseppe Rosario Del Sorbo: Understanding viscosity changes in polyelectrolyte surfactant complexes
2020
Wednesday 2 December 16:00 (online)
Armando Maestro: Tailoring the interfacial assembly and the mechanical response of colloidal and biological systems
Tuesday 24 November 12:00 (online)
Margarita Russina: Porous materials at nanoscale: a neutron scattering insight
Wednesday 15 January 11:30
Petra Bacova: Link between structure and dynamics in star-like polymer melts
2019
Monday 28 October 11:30
Laura Alvarez: Controlling artificial microswimmers
Thursday 17 October 15:30
Julian Oberdisse: Structure of core-shell microgel particles by contrast variation SANS
Thursday 3 October 11:30
Christopher J. Garvey: Electrospun silk fibroin for energy harvesting applications
Friday 6 September 12:00
Iker Castrillo: Study of crystalline nanostructures on poly(butylene furanoate) thin films
Tuesday 23 July 11:30
Rodney Priestley: Direct measurement of the local glass transition in copolymers
Thursday 18 July 11:30
Frank Scheffold: Light scattering and particle tracking based passive and active microrheology of soft matter
Thursday 30 April 16:30 (DIPC)
Catalin Gainaru: Dielectric spectroscopy and its relation to other experimental techniques
Thursday 23 April 11:30
Timo Brändel: Multiresponsive core-shell microgel/nanoparticle hybrids as smart nanoreactors
Friday 12 April 11:30
Farihah Haque: Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry to characterize and assess purity of cyclic polymers
Friday 29 March 11:30
Petra Bacova: Computational modelling of nanostructured materials
Monday 28 January 10:00
Coline Bretz: Technical seminar on 3D-LS spectrometer
Friday 11 January 11:30
José Luis Neira: How to study disordered proteins with biophysical techniques: a personal approach
2018
Thursday 15 November 11:30
Ester Verde: From porous organic polymers to innovative polymers, through mechanoresponsive materials
Friday 28 September 11:30
Jordan Ochs: Ring opening polymerization and CuAAC reaction for the synthesis of pure monocyclic polyehters
Friday 14 September 11:30
Hender López: Coarse-grained modelling of the bionano interface
Thursday 17 May 11:30
Daniel Arismendi: Computational approaches for understanding aqueous systems
Thursday 10 May 11:30
Lorenzo Rovigatti: In silico modelling of microgels
Tuesday 8 May 16:30 (DIPC)
Aurora Nogales: Applications of dielectric spectroscopy to study soft matter phase transitions in real time
Tuesday 24 April 11:30
Erik Berda: Functional nanomaterials from single polymer chains
Thursday 19 April 11:30
Julian Oberdisse: More structure and dynamics of model nanocomposites
Wednesday 18 April 11:30
Julian Oberdisse: Structure and dynamics of highly disordered, industrial polymer nanocomposites
Friday 9 March 10:00
Nadia Lotti: New biobased polyesters: structure-property relationship
Thursday 1 March 11:30
Xavier Monnier: Usefulness of fast scanning calorimetry for physical aging investigations of complex polymer systems
Thursday 15 February 11:30
Daniel Martínez-Tong: Molecular dynamics of poly(butylene 2,5-furanoate) by broadband dielectric spectroscopy
2017
Tuesday 28 November 16:00 (Auditorium CFM)
Ferenc Mezei: Neutron scattering research: perspectives after three quarters of a century of progress
Monday 23 October 11:30
Ivan Coluzza: Computational protein design: the computer as a virtual laboratory
Thursday 28 September 11:30
Yuri Feldman: The interplay between water and solute
Friday 9 June 11:30 (Auditorium CFM)
Rufina Alamo: Crystallization of precision halogen substituted polyethylenes: toward advanced polyolefin-like materials
Friday 17 March 11:30
Valerio di Lisio: Time resolved infrared spectroscopy and modulated temperature FT-IR studies on physical aging, glass transition and crystallization of polymeric materials
Thursday 16 March 10:15
Beatriz Robles: Dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystal dimers
Thursday 9 February 11:30
Maud Formanek: Simulations of telechelic star polymers under shear flow
Thursday 2 February 11:30
Edurne González Gándara: From the film formation and properties of polymeric latexes to the fabrication of functional nanofibers by electrospinning
2016
Thursday 16 December 11:30
Paula Malo de Molina: Entanglement tube dilation of linear polyisoprene in mixtures with stars
Thursday 1 December 11:30
Gerardo Martínez: Self-assembly of a carboxyl-terminated DMS oligomer
Thursday 6 October 11:30
Juan Colmenero: Dielectric susceptibility of liquid water: Microscopic insights from neutron scattering and MD-simulations
Tuesday 6 September 11:30
Daniel Martínez-Tong: Exploring interfacial polarization phenomena in semicrystalline polymer thin films: From local to bulk dielectric measurements
Tuesday 21 June 11:30 (DIPC)
Wolfgang Paul: Relaxation processes and glass transition of confined 1,4-polybutadiene
Tuesday 17 May 16:30 (DIPC)
Simone Napolitano: Analysis of dielectric spectra beyond the relaxation time. What can we learn from the dielectric strength?
Tuesday 17 May 11:00 (DIPC)
Sara Capponi: Nano-confined water in a channel-like protein
Tuesday 15 March 11:30
Petra Bacova: Simulation study of graphene/PEO nanocomposites at temperatures close to the glass transition temperature
Thursday 10 March 11:15-13:00
Ander Amézqueta: Estructura y dinámica de oligómeros de dimetilsiloxano cristalizados
Senda Basasoro: Construcción de nanopartículas poliméricas unimoleculares a partir de precursores con propiedades anfifílicas
Tuesday 8 March 11:15-13:00
Angel Moreno: Concentrated solutions of single-chain nanoparticles: A simple model for disordered proteins under crowding conditions
Federica Lo Verso: Globular single-chain nanoparticles: A new class of glass-forming soft colloids
Tuesday 16 February 11:30
Paula Malo de Molina: Small angle neutron scattering of hydrogels and complex nanoemulsions
Tuesday 2 February 11:30
Daniel Martínez-Tong: Laser fabrication of polymer ferroelectric nanostructures: A fast, contact-free approach
Tuesday 26 January 11:30
Fabienne Barroso-Bujans: Dielectric relaxations in poly(glycidyl phenyl ether): Effects of microstructure and cyclic topology
2015
Wednesday 25 November 11:30
Juan Colmenero: Universal trend of the non-exponential Rouse mode relaxation in glass-forming polymer systems: Experimental facts, MD-simulations and a theoretical approach based on a generalized Langevin equation
Wednesday 30 September 11:00 (DIPC)
Kurt Binder: Understanding the stiffness of macromolecules: From single chains to semiflexible polymer brushes
Tuesday 2 June 11:15-13:00
Gerardo Martínez: Dielectric relaxations of polyurethane-acrylic hybrid pressure sensitive adhesives
Luisa Barceló: Dynamics of unentangled polydimethylsiloxane: MD-simulations validated by neutron scattering
Stefan Holler: Branch-point motion in asymmetric star polymers
Tuesday 26 May 11:15-13:00
Marina González: Microwave-assisted preparation of single-chain PS nanoparticles
Alex Latorre: Towards hybrids of metallic and single-chain polymeric nanoparticles
Natalia Gutiérrez: Glass transition of polymer nanoparticles studied by differential scanning calorimetry
Tuesday 19 May 16:30 (DIPC)
Ranko Richert: Basics and applications of nonlinear dielectric techniques
Monday 4 May 10:00-18:00
Group meeting on "Materials based on single-chain nanoparticles: Synthesis, structure and dynamics"
Morning 10:00-13:00
Josetxo Pomposo: Synthesis and applications
Angel Moreno: Design of synthesis routes by simulation
Afternoon 15:00-18:00
Arantxa Arbe: From solutions to nanocomposites: Combining scattering techniques and simulations
Daniele Cangialosi: Calorimetry and glass transition
Tuesday 13 January 10:30 (DIPC)
Joachim Kohlbrecher: Magnetic response of functionalized lipid bilayers
2014
Thursday 16 October 12:00
Hermis Iatrou: Responsive polymer nanocarriers
Thursday 25 September 11:30
Alicja Wolny: The use of dielectric methods to detect tumor tissues
Wednesday 10 September 11:30
Guilhem Baeza: Going forward with nanocomposites: Crossroads between structure and properties
Friday 5 September 11:30
Ewa Golas: Structural and mechanical insight into alphaA-crystallin via steered molecular dynamics. Principal component methods for protein dynamics: Hsp70 and alphaA-crystallin
Tuesday 8 July 11:30
Marco Bernabei: Molecular characterization of the hydration water at organic and inorganic interfaces
Friday 13 June 11:15
Gerardo Martínez: Self-assembly of functionalized dimethyl siloxane oligomers: Structure and dynamics
Fabienne Barroso-Bujans: Novel cyclic polyethers: Synthesis and physico-chemical properties
Friday 23 May 10:00 (DIPC)
Kenneth Schweizer: Particle diffusion, topological entanglements and slow macromolecular dynamics in polymer nano-composites
Thursday 22 May 15:00 (DIPC)
Kenneth Schweizer: Unified theory of activated relaxation in molecular and polymeric liquids over 14 decades in time
Wednesday 21 May 16:30 (DIPC)
George Floudas: Soft Matter under hard confinement
Friday 16 May 11:15
Ana Sánchez: Single-chain soft nanoparticles via dynamic covalent bonds: pH-triggered assembly/disassembly
Irma Pérez: Recent advances in the synthesis of single-chain polymer nanoparticles
Thursday 15 May 11:00
Alejandro Miccio: Local characterization of a polymer electrolyte by means of AFM based dielectric spectroscopy
Gerardo Martínez: Dielectric relaxation of polyurethane/acrylic waterborne hybrid adhesives
Friday 9 May 11:30
Silvina Cerveny: Water dynamics in ordinary and biological solutions at low temperatures
Friday 21 March 11:30
Lucía Ortega: Estudio de la viabilidad de la polimerización aniónica del alfa-metilestireno
2013
Tuesday 10 December 12:00
Alejandro Müller: Influence of molecular architecture (cyclic versus linear) on the crystallization of well defined poly(e-polycaprolactones)
Friday 22 November 11:30
Angel Moreno: The fascinating physics of ring polymers
Friday 8 November 11:30
Silvia Arrese-Igor: Measurements in the ultra-low frequency range by thermostimulated depolarization current techniques: Detecting non-equilibrium effects on polyisoprene chain dynamics
Monday 21 October 11:15
Debsindhu Bhowmik: A quasielastic neutron scattering approach to study the microscopic dynamics in nanocomposites of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(methyl methacrylate) soft nanoparticles
Gerardo Martínez: Self-assembly of functionalized dimethyl siloxane oligomers (ODMS)
Monday 14 October 11:30
Arantxa Arbe: Structure and dynamics in comb-like polymers: the role of dynamic asymmetry
Tuesday 2 July 11:30
Alexey Lyulin: Confinement, ageing and rejuvenation effects in polymer films/composites
Friday 14 June 11:30
Fernando Alvarez: A molecular dynamics simulation approach to dielectric spectroscopy of bulk water and proline aqueous solutions
Friday 7 June 11:15
Federica Lo Verso: Hierarchical self-assembly of polymer based nanoparticles: design and functionalization strategies
Maria Luisa Barceló: A molecular dynamics simulation study of polydimethylsiloxane
Monday 3 June 12:00
Nicolas Clément: Molecular relaxation dynamics in molecular tunnel junctions
Tuesday 21 May 16:30 (DIPC)
Marian Paluch: Broadband dielectric spectroscopy as a powerful tool for investigating molecular dynamics and proton reaction kinetics of condensed matter systems at ambient and elevated pressure
Friday 17 May 11:15
Musthafa Kummali: Investigating multicomponent polymeric systems by nanodielectric spectroscopy
Alejandro Miccio: Towards nanodielectric spectroscopy: Current status and future developments
Friday 10 May 11:15
Irma Pérez: Intrinsically catalytic single-chain polymer nanoparticles
Ana Sánchez: 'Michael' nanocarriers mimicking transient-binding disordered proteins
Friday 26 April 11:30
Gustavo Schwartz: Dielectric properties at the nano-scale: Introduction, current status and future developments
Friday 12 April 11:30
Guido Goracci: Dynamics of PDMAEMA in concentrated solution of THF: A neutron scattering and dielectric spectroscopy study
Tuesday 19 March 11:15
Lorea Buruaga: Exploring new strategies for single-chain nanoparticle construction
Petra Bacova: Computer simulations of chain dynamics in entangled branched polymers
Friday 8 March 9:45 (DIPC)
Christos Tzoumanekas: Molecular modelling of cavitation in model polyethylene networks
Thursday 7 March 11:30
Christos Tzoumanekas: A microscopic description of entanglement in polyethylene melts and rubbers
Wednesday 6 March 12:00 (Auditorium CFM)
Daniele Cangialosi: Dynamics and thermodynamics of polymer glasses
Tuesday 5 March 12:00 (DIPC)
Helen Jansson: The building material group at Chalmers: Current research and future projects
Friday 22 February 10:30
Angel Alegría: Dielectric spectroscopy: Applications to the investigation of molecular motions
Friday 8 February 11:30
Josetxo Pomposo: Synthesis of single-chain nanoparticles
Friday 25 January 11:15
Fabienne Barroso-Bujans: Two-dimensional subnanometer confinement of poly(ethylene oxide) in graphite oxide: Structure and dynamics
Iñigo García Yoldi: Computational simulation of confined polymers: Poly(ethylene oxide) in graphite oxide
Tuesday 22 January 11:30
Prity Mohanti: Phase transitions in soft repulsive colloids
Wednesday 9 January 12:00 (Auditorium CFM)
Angel Moreno: Universal properties in polymers: What can we learn by simulating coarse-grained models?
2012
Monday 17 December 11:30
Juan Colmenero: Chain dynamics in unentangled polymer blends with dynamic asymmetry. A generalized Langevin equation formalism
Friday 30 November 11:30
Yasmin Khairy: A molecular dynamics simulation study on the structure and the dynamics of polyisobutylene
Zakaria Slimani: Computer simulations of dynamics in block, gradient and random copolymers
Friday 9 November 11:30 (DIPC)
Francisco del Monte: Sustainable processes for the preparation of electrically conductive hierarchical carbon materials