Fundamentals & Practical Applications of Scattering Methods

Dr. Jacques Joosten

(Chairman of the Executive Board of the Dutch Polymer Institute, the Netherlands)

26-May-2014 (Monday) 8:00-11:00

(Main Research Building Rm. 410)

1. General notions of scattering of electromagnetic radiation by matter

1.1 Objective of the lectures

1.2 Scattering methods to reveal the microscopic structure

1.3 Origin of light, X-ray and Neutron scattering

1.4 Main expression for Static Light Scattering (SLS)

27-May-2014 (Tuesday) 8:00-11:00

(Main Research Building Rm. 410)

2. Static Light Scattering by polymer and colloidal solutions

2.1 Rayleigh scattering

2.2 Debye scattering

2.3 Form factors and radii of gyration

2.4 Effects of Polydispersity in size

28-May-2014 (Wednesday) 8:00-11:00

(Main Research Building Rm. 410)

3. Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS)

3.1 Brownian motion

3.2 Correlation Functions

3.3 Theoretical Expressions

3.4 Translational Diffusion Coefficient

3.5 Particle sizing

3.6 DLS by dilute polydisperse samples

26, 27, 28-May-2014 13:30-17:00

(Main Research Building Rm 132)

Project group practice in DLS instrument using model polymer systems

(Due to space limitation, only those project involved students are welcomed to join practice section)