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C2ESPCI-03 | Soft and Living Matter week

Soft and Living Matter week
12
English
Laboratories of Chemistry, Physics and biophysics at Chimie Paris - PSL, ESPCI Paris - PSL, Curie, ENS - PSL
The goal of this week is to experiment and observe at the microscopic scale the motion of constituents of soft and living materials : colloidal particles in a Maizena suspension, DNA molecules folding and unfolding in a petri dish, emulsion droplets creaming, microalgae attracted by light, bacteria running and tumbling?
The students will design and perform simple experiments which will be performed in laboratories of ENSCP, ENS, Institut Curie and ESPCI to illustrate basic concepts that control the dynamics of soft and living matter such as self-assembly, elasticity, interfaces or Brownian motion...
The week will be strongly interdisciplinary : the teams will be obtained by mixing students of different backgrounds/Masters. Each team will pick one concept that they will illustrate by three days of experiments, one in a chemistry lab, one in a physics lab and one in a biophysics lab, guided by researchers experts in these disciplines.
Monday;
Simple presentations of the concepts of soft matter (self assembly, Brownian motion, activated motion, surfaces interfaces and elasticity) and simple outreach demonstrations in the class room.

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday;
Three days of experiments in three different labs (chemistry, Physics and bio-physics labs) at ESPCI, ENS, Institut Curie and ENSCP. Concepts illustrated : self assembly, interfaces and elasticity, Brownian motion, activated motion.

Friday;
Presentations of the experimental results by the teams to all the students.

 
Evaluation is based on the quality of oral presentations made by the teams to report their experimental observations.

 
Any scientific degree in Physics, Chemistry or biology

 
MONTEUX Cécile

 
Responsable : Cécile MONTEUX (ESPCI Paris - PSL);

Équipe enseignante : Damien BAIGL (ENS - PSL), Yvette TRAN (ESPCI Paris - PSL), Emilie Verneuil (ESPCI Paris - PSL), Min HUI LI (Chimie Paris - PSL), Joshua McGRAW (ESPCI Paris - PSL), Annie COLIN (ESPCI Paris - PSL), Éric CLÉMENT (ESPCI Paris - PSL), José BICO (ESPCI Paris - PSL), Rachid THIAM (ENS - PSL), Kristine SCHAUER (Curie), Laurent CORTE (Mines Paris - PSL et ESPCI Paris - PSL), Raphaël JEANNERET (ENS - PSL)