LEARN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LIGHT SCATTERING

Date:               One weak in October 2012; 5 x 3 hrs;

                        Exact days to be announced later

Place:             Chalmers University of Technology;

                        Room to be announced later.

Credit :           2 hp

Level:             Graduate

Teacher:        Jan-Erik Löfroth, Applied Chemistry, Chalmers

Lessons in Library at Polymer Technology, Kemigården 4, 8th floor
Monday October 8 – Friday October 12; 9.00-11.30

Demonstrations in room 3040, Applied Chemistry, Kemigården 4, 3rd floor
Monday October 8 – Friday October 12; 13.00-15.00

Groups during demonstrations:
Since some more people have announced their interest after June 30, it has been necessary to schedule the demonstrations somewhat differently than I first announced. If you would like to change group, just contact a person to change group with. You find the email addresses in “sent to” above. We must however not be more than 4 persons/group

Monday Oct 8
                             Tina Gschneidter
                             Maxim Kogan
                             Nils Carlsson
                             Christoffer Abrahamsson

Tuesday Oct 9
                             Joakim Wigström
                             Lu Sun
                             Björn Esbjörnsson
                             Richard Heijl

Wednesday Oct 10
                             Carina Olsson
                             Pouyan Ghaffari Nouran
                             David Lindberg
                             Michael Agthe

Thursday Oct 11
                             Frida Iselau
                             Anders Johnsson
                             Per Sillrén
                             Niklas Lorén

Friday Oct 12
                             Matias Nordin
                             Maria Matson
                             Jonathan Borg

Contents:

            Static light scattering

            Dynamic light scattering

            Demonstrations

Students from all departments at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg are welcomed. During the course the application of light scattering to different types of systems will be shown by examples, e.g. complex particle systems, polymers as solutions and as gels. The demonstrations will include sample preparation, how to record data, and what you must be aware of during data sampling.

Please observe that due to practical problems no more than four persons can attend the demonstrations each time. Therefore, the total number of students at the course will be limited to 20. Thus, first with application = first accepted.

Questions are answered by Jan-Erik Löfroth, lofroth@chalmers.se , 031-772 2968

The form factor vs the wave vector from studies with combined static and dynamic light scattering techniques for the characterization of a core-shell particle. Theoretical curves (full drawn lines) are shown for different types of particles, as well as the experimental data (dots). Löfroth 2009 unpublished.