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
Selena wins the thesis award!
Selena Koene, a former MSc thesis student at PCC, is one of the latest UFW thesis award nominees. She did her master thesis under the supervision of Siddharth Deshpande and Maria Forlenza (from Aquaculture and Fisheries, AFI).
Read moreOur 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
: BioRxiv -
Chemical Design Model for Emergent Synthetic Catch Bonds
Frontiers in Physics 8 (2020). - ISSN 2296-424X -
Sheared Amorphous Packings Display Two Separate Particle Transport Mechanisms
Physical Review Letters 125 (2020)13. - ISSN 0031-9007 -
Particle Dynamics in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures with Different Polymer Architectures
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 12 (2020)37. - ISSN 1944-8244 - p. 42041 - 42047. -
Propagation and attenuation of mechanical signals in ultrasoft 2D solids
Science Advances 6 (2020)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 117 (2020)30. - ISSN 0027-8424 - p. 18110 - 18118.
News
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Hard plastics can be recycled if they are constructed differently
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Can you get more out of one paint stroke?
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Selena wins the thesis award!
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Water-soluble polymer could make vaporized aluminium in food packaging unnecessary
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Wageningen scientists discover how the potato blight pathogen penetrates the plant
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Fulbright grant Rob de Haas
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Joris Sprakel wins ERC Consolidator Grant 2020
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Siddharth Deshpande guest editor of membranes
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Interview Hanne van der Kooij in 'de ingenieur'
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Gels from droplets less stable than gels from solid particles