Soft Matter Self-Assembly.

Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Course group shot -- Basic concepts in self-assembly -- Thermodynamic description of the clustering process -- The need of low temperatures (compared to the bonding energy) -- The need of directional attractive interactions -- Analogies with chemical reactions -- The simplest self-assembly process. Equilibrium polymerization -- Equilibrium polimerization in chemical language -- Cooperative polymerization: slaved equilibrium polymerization -- Micelles -- How do we ``exactly'' calculate Qn -- Conclusions -- Self-assembly from colloids to biology -- Reversible adsorption and allostery: The MWC model -- Introduction -- Statistical mechanics of self-assembly onto templates -- Allostery: MWC model -- Oxygen binding to hemoglobin -- Collective adsorption and the Hill coefficient -- MWC and genome accessibility -- Statistical mechanics of genetic regulation -- Introduction -- Simple repression in the grand ensemble -- Calculating the fugacity -- Complex behavior by simple adsorption -- Comparison with experiments: Data collapse in gene expression -- Virus capsid assembly -- Introduction: Viruses as equilibrium objects -- Association equilibria: critical aggregate concentration -- Interactions in virus capsids -- Hydrophobic interactions -- Electrostatic self-energy of a virus capsid -- Predictions: temperature and ionic strength dependence of virus capsid formation -- Finite-size objects stabilized by electrostatic interactions -- Introduction -- Equilibrium clusters of colloids and proteins -- Very large protein clusters -- Liposome-polyelectrolyte clusters -- Non-equilibrium clusters -- Beyond clusters: Higher colloid concentrations -- Conclusions -- Depletion interactions on soft colloids: Glass formation, melting and demixing -- Depletion interactions: the Asakura-Oosawa paradigm.

Mixtures of star polymers and linear homopolymer chains -- Mixtures of soft and hard colloids -- Concentrated solutions: glasses and demixing -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Driven self-assembly -- Introduction -- Colloidal building blocks for driven self-assembly -- The available toolbox of interparticle interactions -- Technical interlude: how to quantitatively compare confocal microscopy and computer simulation results -- Electric field-driven self-assembly of soft dipolar particles -- Using field-driven self-assembly to investigate phase transition kinetics for ultrasoft colloids -- Shape matters: electric field-driven self-assembly in ellipsoidal particle suspensions -- Anisotropic magnetic particles in a magnetic field --- what can we learn from SAXS -- Magnetic field-driven assembly of hematite particles -- Conclusions -- The influence of self-assembly on the magnetic response of dipolar soft systems -- Introduction -- Back to the 19th century -- Need for correlations -- Self-assembly as a tool to design the magnetic response: chains -- Crosslinked chains -- When the temperature goes down -- Branching -- Beyond spheres -- Conclusions -- Capillary interactions on fluid interfaces: Opportunities for directed assembly -- Introduction -- The interactions of microparticles in confined systems: It is all about the boundaries -- The trapping of isolated particles on planar interfaces -- Particle with an equilibrium contact angle -- Particle with a pinned, undulated contact line -- Non-spherical particles -- Isolated particles trapped on curved interfaces -- Pair interaction on planar interfaces -- Method of reflections -- Exact solution in bipolar coordinate -- Capillary curvature energy -- Local expansion of the curvature field in terms of matched asymptotics -- Electrostatic analogies -- A grounded disk in an external potential.

A charged disk in an external potential: Handle with care -- Experimental observations -- Near-field repulsion -- Curved interface -- Molding of the fluid interface -- Observations of microdisk migration on curved interfaces around a circular micropost -- Observations of microsphere migration on curved interfaces around a circular micropost -- Observations of microcylinders on curved interfaces around a circular micropost -- Cylinders on interfaces with more complex curvature fields -- Interface shape -- Shape of the interface in the presence of a particle -- Conclusions -- Pathways to self-organization: Crystallization via nucleation and growth -- Introduction -- Classical nucleation theory -- General picture -- Kramers problem and mean first-passage times -- Nucleation rate of CNT -- When does CNT fail? -- Setting the stage -- Phase diagrams and free energy calculations -- Order parameter and reaction coordinate(s) for crystallization -- Free energy landscapes are not unique -- Computing nucleation rates -- Macroscopic view -- A pedestrian approach -- Mean first-passage time -- Transition state theory (TST) -- Bennett-Chandler method (TST-BC) -- Transition path sampling -- Transition interface sampling (TIS) -- Forward flux sampling -- Evolution of methods -- Crystallization rates of a supercooled LJ fluid -- Transition rates are unique -- Analyzing the nucleation mechanism -- Reaction coordinate -- Committor -- Committor distribution and transition state ensemble -- Likelihood maximization -- Applications -- Hard sphere freezing -- Water freezing -- Summary and outlook -- Static and dynamic properties of inverse patchy colloids -- Introduction -- Model -- Simulation techniques -- Results -- Confined, two-dimensional system with and without external field -- Three-dimensional system -- Conclusions.

A geometric view of structure formation in soft colloids -- Introduction -- 2D minimal-enthalpy structures -- Canonical lattices -- Semi-canonical and non-canonical lattices -- Intermediate and large shoulder-to-core ratios -- Phase coexistence -- Phase separation -- Quasicrystals -- Conclusions -- DNA-based nanoscale self-assembly -- DNA for nanotechnology -- Advantages of DNA as a nanomaterial -- DNA tiles and crystalline arrays -- Three-dimensional (3D) DNA Nano-objects -- Scaffolded DNA origami -- DNA bricks -- Approaches for DNA-nanoparticles conjugates -- Direct replacement method -- Non-covalent attachment method -- Conjugation approaches -- Functional group grafting and subsequent conjugation method -- Approaches for DNA-microparticles conjugates -- DNA-assembled nanoparticle clusters -- One (1D)- and two (2D)-dimensional nanoparticle arrays -- 1D arrays -- 2D arrays -- DNA-driven three-dimensional nanoparticle superlattices -- Dynamic systems -- Some applications of DNA-NP systems -- Conclusions -- The hydrodynamics of active systems -- Introduction -- Single swimmer hydrodynamics: background -- Swimming at low Reynolds number -- The Scallop Theorem -- Far flow fields -- Single swimmer hydrodynamics: applications -- Tracers: loops and entrainment -- Swimmers in Poiseuille flow -- Surfaces -- Collective hydrodynamics of active entities -- Nematic liquid crystals -- Beris-Edwards equations -- Adding activity -- Collective hydrodynamics: applications -- Active turbulence -- Microtubules and molecular motors -- Lyotropic active nematics -- Discussion -- Colloidal inclusions in liquid crystals -- Introduction and summary -- Warmup in flatland -- The boojums -- The hedgehog -- Two further readings -- List of participants.

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