2nd French-Swiss Meeting SANS for Soft Matter

Jan 24, 2024, 11:00 AM → Jan 25, 2024, 4:35 PM Europe/Zurich

WHGA/001 (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Deadlines:

Abstract submission:       November 24, 2023

Registration:                    January 15, 2024

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Wednesday, January 24

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Registration

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch at Oase

1:30 PM → 1:50 PM Opening - Welcome to PSI

Speaker: Michel Kenzelmann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

1:50 PM → 2:25 PM Keynote 1 - Particle softness probed by small-angle scattering

Speaker: Andrea Scotti (Department of Biomedical Science, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden)

2:25 PM → 2:45 PM Talk 1 - Oppositely-charged microgels in crowded environment, a SANS with contrast variation study

Speaker: Alexander Petrunin (Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University)

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Talk 2 - Counterion cloud percolation induced spontaneous deswelling of pNIPAM microgels investigated via Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS)

Speaker: Boyang Zhou (ETH Zurich)

3:05 PM → 3:25 PM Talk 3 - Exploring Soft Matter with Advanced Sample Environments

Speaker: Leonardo Chiappisi (Institut Laue-Langevin)

3:25 PM → 3:45 PM Talk 4 - Moisture-dependent swelling in nanocellulose foams investigated with small angle neutron scattering

Speaker: Elisabetta Nocerino (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee Break

4:15 PM → 4:50 PM Keynote 2 - Macromolecular assembly in slow motion - Dialysis under a neutron beam

Speaker: Dr Jean-Paul Chapel (CRPP, Bordeaux)

4:50 PM → 5:10 PM Talk 5 - Iron-carbohydrate Complexes treating Iron Anaemia: understanding the Nano-structure and Protein Interactions using Microfluidic-SAXS and SANS

Speaker: Leonard Krupnik (Empa)

5:10 PM → 5:30 PM Talk 6 - Decorating tunable structures with PEG

Speaker: Maëva Almeida

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Talk 7 - Surfactant-induced gelation of oxidised cellulose nanofibrils dispersions: using contrast-variation studies to unravel the micelles-fibrils interactions.

Speaker: Julien Schmitt (Institut Charles Gerhardt de Montpellier)

5:50 PM → 6:25 PM Keynote 3 - Probing an oil-water interface stabilized by colloidal Cellulosic particles

Speaker: Dr Isabelle Capron (INRAE, Nantes)

6:25 PM → 6:35 PM SANS-LLB at PSI: keeping up with the soft matter community needs

Speaker: Alexis Chennevière

6:35 PM → 7:55 PM Poster session with standing dinner

Thursday, January 25

9:00 AM → 9:05 AM Opening - Welcome

9:05 AM → 9:40 AM Keynote 4 - Characterizing Soft Polymer Materials in the Bulk and at Interfaces with Neutrons

Speaker: Dr Harm-Anton Klok (EPFL, Lausanne)

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Talk 8 - Unravelling the role of amphiphilic polymer conetwork structure in silicone hydrogel contact lens properties

Speaker: Olivier Sandre (Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO) CNRS / Univ Bordeaux / Bordeaux-INP, Pessac, France)

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Talk 9 - Interdiffusion of water in waterborne polymer latex films

Speaker: Debasish Saha (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 11:25 AM Keynote 5 - Structure and rheology of stimuli responsive nanocellulose interfacial layers

Speaker: Peter Fischer (ETH Zurich)

11:25 AM → 11:45 AM Talk 10 - Study the mechanisms of the fibrous structure formation in plant-based meat analogues (PBMAs) via in situ small angle neutron scattering

Speaker: Tong Guan (ETH Zurich)

11:45 AM → 12:05 PM Talk 11 - Study of functionalised polymeric micelles through Small Angle Scattering

Speaker: Ananthapadmanabhan UNNIKRISHNAN (Doctoral student)

12:05 PM → 12:40 PM Keynote 6 - Nanometric-sized ions: Emerging Players in Soft Matter - The Decisive Role of Combining Neutron and X-ray Scattering

Speaker: Dr Pierre Bauduin (ICSM, Marcoule)

12:40 PM → 1:00 PM Closing / Poster prize

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch at Oase

2:30 PM → 4:30 PM Guided visit at SINQ and SANS-LLB