Self-Assembly of Colloidal Systems and Its Application Keng-hui Lin 林耿慧 Institute of Physics Academia Sinica
Outline Overview of Soft Condensed Matter Physics Colloidal Systems Entropy Driven Phenomena Packing in Confined Space Application in Tissue Engineering
Overview of Soft Condensed Matter Definition: Physics of the system with the energy scale of k B T. The systems of interests include colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, emulsions, membranes, proteins, cells, etc.. Self-Assembly
Examples of Colloidal Systems Examples – paint, proteins, ink, nanoparticles, e-paper etc. Narrow Definition: Solid particles dispersed in liquid Broad Definition: Two immiscible phases uniformly dispersed to each other
Scientific Importance – Jean Perrin, 1911 Nobel Laureate, the first hard sphere system, model system Interparticle Interactions – electrostatic, van der Waal Interaction, hydrodynamic, entropic…etc. Shapes – spheres, rod, blobs... 2a Physical Properties of Colloidal Systems Phase behavior: F=U-TS
Self-Assembly of Collodial Crystals Optimal packing to maximize entropy Is fcc/hexagonal closed pack volume fraction
Depletion Interactions
180 Hz Line-Scanned Optical Tweezers
Find the centroids of colloids Measure the separation of two beads 30 minutes video tape -> 10 5 measurements The probability of separation Spatial resolution ~ 30 nm, Energy resolution ~0.05 k B T Video Microscopy
buffer fd Buffer potential -- optical potential U fd =U optical +U dep Differential Measurement
1.0 m particles YJM model L=0.88 m fd Depletion Interactions
A.D. Dinsmore, A.G. Yodh, and D.J. Pine, Nature, 383, 239 (1996), Langmuir 15, 314 (1999). Control the positions of colloids by surface topology Depletion Interactions with Structures
J. Vac. Soc. Tech. B. 15, 2897 (1997), Steve Chou et al. AFM pictures of imprint templates p=0.46 micron p=0.83 micron thermal imprint Imprint with Gratings
2D Structures on Line Gratings
2D structures on Crossed Gratings
FCC Crystals Confocal picture of FCC crystals
Colloids Entrapped In Emulsions V.N. Manoharan, M.T.Elsesser, D.J. Pine Science (2003)
Colloids in Small Confines with Depletion Interactions Different packing from the one without depletion interactions
Paradigm of Tissue Engineering Scaffold Scaffold Drug, nutrition, … Cells
Making of Bubbles with Flow-focusing Microfluidic Device
Making of 3D ordered porous foam
Cell Encapsulation
Conclusions Advanced optical microscopy The role of entropy Assembly of different micro- structures The interplay between cells and the microstructure environment
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