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xviii, 171 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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Subdividing space through interfaces leads to many space partitions that are relevant to soft matter self-assembly. Prominent examples include cellular media, e.g. soap froths, which are bubbles of air separated by interfaces of soap and water, but also more complex partitions such as bicontinuous minimal surfaces. Using computer simulations, this thesis analyses soft matter systems in terms of the relationship between the physical forces between the system's constituents and the structure of the resulting interfaces or partitions. The focus is on two systems, copolymeric self-assembly and the so-called Quantizer problem, where the driving force of structure formation, the minimisation of the free-energy, is an interplay of surface area minimisation and stretching contributions, favouring cells of uniform thickness. In the first part of the thesis we address copolymeric phase formation with sharp interfaces. We analyse a columnar copolymer system "forced" to assemble on a spherical surface, where the perfect solution, the ...
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kumulative Dissertation
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2022
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Hain, Tobias Martin Structure formation and identification in geometrically driven soft matter systems Potsdam, 2022
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English
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Hochschulschrift