2nd French-Swiss Meeting SANS for Soft Matter

24 Jan 2024, 11:00 → 25 Jan 2024, 16:35 Europe/Zurich

WHGA/001 (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Deadlines:

Abstract submission:       November 24, 2023

Registration:                    January 15, 2024

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Wednesday, 24 January

11:00 → 12:00 Registration

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch at Oase

13:30 → 13:50 Opening - Welcome to PSI

Speaker: Michel Kenzelmann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:50 → 14:25 Keynote 1 - Particle softness probed by small-angle scattering

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

14:25 → 14:45 Talk 1 - Oppositely-charged microgels in crowded environment, a SANS with contrast variation study

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

14:45 → 15:05 Talk 2 - Counterion cloud percolation induced spontaneous deswelling of pNIPAM microgels investigated via Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS)

Speaker: Boyang Zhou (ETH Zurich)

15:05 → 15:25 Talk 3 - Exploring Soft Matter with Advanced Sample Environments

Speaker: Leonardo Chiappisi (Institut Laue-Langevin)

15:25 → 15:45 Talk 4 - Moisture-dependent swelling in nanocellulose foams investigated with small angle neutron scattering

Speaker: Elisabetta Nocerino (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 16:50 Keynote 2 - Macromolecular assembly in slow motion - Dialysis under a neutron beam

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

16:50 → 17:10 Talk 5 - Iron-carbohydrate Complexes treating Iron Anaemia: understanding the Nano-structure and Protein Interactions using Microfluidic-SAXS and SANS

Speaker: Leonard Krupnik (Empa)

17:10 → 17:30 Talk 6 - Decorating tunable structures with PEG

Speaker: Maëva Almeida

17:30 → 17:50 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)

17:50 → 18:25 Keynote 3 - Probing an oil-water interface stabilized by colloidal Cellulosic particles

Speaker: Dr Isabelle Capron (INRAE, Nantes)

18:25 → 18:35 SANS-LLB at PSI: keeping up with the soft matter community needs

Speaker: Alexis Chennevière

18:35 → 19:55 Poster session with standing dinner

Thursday, 25 January

09:00 → 09:05 Opening - Welcome

09:05 → 09:40 Keynote 4 - Characterizing Soft Polymer Materials in the Bulk and at Interfaces with Neutrons

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

09:40 → 10:00 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 → 10:20 Talk 9 - Interdiffusion of water in waterborne polymer latex films

Speaker: Debasish Saha (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

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

Speaker: Peter Fischer (ETH Zurich)

11:25 → 11:45 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 → 12:05 Talk 11 - Study of functionalised polymeric micelles through Small Angle Scattering

Speaker: Ananthapadmanabhan UNNIKRISHNAN (Doctoral student)

12:05 → 12:40 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 → 13:00 Closing / Poster prize

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch at Oase

14:30 → 16:30 Guided visit at SINQ and SANS-LLB