Domaines
Condensed matter
Statistical physics
Biophysics
Soft matter
Physics of liquids
Hydrodynamics/Turbulence/Fluid mechanics
Type of internship
Expérimental et théorique Description
What if we could directly watch how single liquid molecules move close to a solid surfaces? While molecular-scale dynamics at interfaces play a key role in a variety of processes in soft matter (from wetting, tribology, down to confined flow in nanofluidic devices), direct access to these interfacial transport processes at the molecular scale has remained a distant experimental goal. We propose in this internship to bridge this gap by exploring the used of state-of-the-art single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy technique, to directly visualize and track molecular motion in dense polymeric liquid melts at the nanoscale, an ability which has been so far exclusive to molecular dynamic simulations!
Contact
Jean Comtet