SUBJECT
Macromolecules
lecture
master
3
Semester 3
Autumn semester
Flexible chain polymers: polymerization polycondensation, partitition function of polymers, basic of conformational analysis, local and global conformations, cooperativity effects, statistical characterization of ideal polymer coils, theta state, rubber elasticity Conjugated polymers: conjugated structures, linear chain – instabilities in one dimension, effect of doping, insulator-metal transition, solitons, polarons, bipolarons Biopolymers: configuration of cellulose, investigation of the structure of proteins with calculation of the energies and with statistical methods, theoretical investigation of transmembrane proteins, structure and flexibility of DNA
required readings:
- Synopses of the lectures, downloadable files from the home page of the lecture
recommended readings:
- M.Rubinstein, R.H.Colby: Polymer Physics, University Press, Oxford, 2003
- S.Roth, D.Carrol: One-Dimensional Metals: Conjugated Polymers, Organic Crystals, Carbon Nanotubes, Wiley-VCH Weinheim, 2004
- JM.Berg, JL.Tymoczko, L.Stryer: Biochemistry, W.H.Freeman and Company, 2002