Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Soft Matter and Complex Fluids

Additional sessions will address rheology of shear-thinning and yield-stress fluids, viscoelastic modelling, and the coupling of flow with microstructure in suspensions and wormlike micellar systems. Presentations may cover polymer brushes, responsive hydrogels, block-copolymer self-assembly, and the phase behaviour of surfactant mixtures under varying temperature and ionic strength. Discussion will extend to depletion interactions, colloidal crystallization, glassy arrest, and jamming in concentrated dispersions, as well as to interfacial rheology at emulsion and foam boundaries. Neutron and X-ray scattering, microrheology, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, and confocal imaging will be considered for resolving structure and dynamics over multiple length and time scales. Advances in liquid crystals and other anisotropic soft materials will be welcomed, with attention to applications in drug delivery, tissue scaffolds, food structuring, personal-care formulations, and additive manufacturing, alongside theoretical frameworks linking mesoscale organization to bulk performance.