Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter
Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter at Wageningen University & Research is interested in phenomena at the nanoscale, where creative chemistry is essential, complex physics is a rule rather than an exception and biology comes to life.
Chair holder
Our Research
- Self-assembled Polymer Networks - Prof. dr. ir. Jasper van der Gucht
- Self-consistent field theory and its applications - Prof. dr. ir. Frans Leermakers
- Self-assembling Protein Structures - Dr. Renko de Vries
- Soft Multiphase Materials - Dr. Joshua A. Dijksman
- Designer Polymeric Materials - Dr. Thomas E. Kodger
- Emergence in Biological Systems - Dr. Siddharth Deshpande
- Nanoscale Microscopy and Spectroscopy - Dr. Francesco Simone Ruggeri
- Physics of Soft Matter - Dr. Uddalok Sen
Latest Publications
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Actinosomes: condensate-templated proteinaceous containers for engineering synthetic cells
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Chemical Design Model for Emergent Synthetic Catch Bonds
Frontiers in Physics (2020), Volume: 8 - ISSN 2296-424X -
Sheared Amorphous Packings Display Two Separate Particle Transport Mechanisms
Physical Review Letters (2020), Volume: 125, Issue: 13 - ISSN 0031-9007 -
Particle Dynamics in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures with Different Polymer Architectures
ACS applied materials & interfaces (2020), Volume: 12, Issue: 37 - ISSN 1944-8244 - p. 42041-42047. -
Propagation and attenuation of mechanical signals in ultrasoft 2D solids
Science Advances (2020), Volume: 6, Issue: 37 - ISSN 2375-2548 -
Complete microviscosity maps of living plant cells and tissues with a toolbox of targeting mechanoprobes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2020), Volume: 117, Issue: 30 - ISSN 0027-8424 - p. 18110-18118.
News
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Mathematicians simulate origin and evolution of biodiversity
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Digitally designed protein works like an anti-freeze for biological material
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Aimee wins the UFW thesis prize in the domain Agrotechnology and Food
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Hard plastics can be recycled if they are constructed differently
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Capillary suspensions: Structuring water-based particulate gels for applications in the biomedical and food industries
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Utilising inherent properties of biopolymer mixtures for the structural designing of complex systems
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Selena wins the thesis award!
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Can you get more out of one paint stroke?
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM)-Rheometry: How adhesive particle properties affect their collective flow behavior
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Wageningen scientists discover how the potato blight pathogen penetrates the plant