{"id":2687,"date":"2019-08-30T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:11:49","slug":"lecture-series-by-ralph-colby-october-28-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/2019\/08\/lecture-series-by-ralph-colby-october-28-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"iRTG lecture series by Ralph Colby (October 28\/30, 2019) | part 2 and 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Polyelectrolyte Solutions: The least understood form of condensed matter<\/h5>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matse.psu.edu\/directory\/ralph-colby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph H. Colby<\/a>,\u00a0The Pennsylvania State University, USA<\/p>\n<p>Polyelectrolytes are polymer chains with covalently bonded ions and oppositely charge counterions. The combination of electrostatic interactions and conformational entropy of polymer chains led Nobel Laureate de Gennes to term this class of materials as the least understood form of condensed matter. Yet polyelectrolytes are essential for life, as DNA and RNA are both polyelectrolytes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<pre>Location:\r\nMartin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale)\r\nDate\/location: \r\nOctober 28, 2019 at <a href=\"https:\/\/osm.org\/go\/0MEv8aZpU--?layers=N&amp;m=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1<\/a> (VSP1), 1.26 \r\nOctober 30, 2019 at <a href=\"https:\/\/osm.org\/go\/0MEv9INFZ--?layers=N&amp;m=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Von-Danckelmann-Platz 1<\/a> (VDP1), 2.12 \r\nTime: <strong>3pm-6pm<\/strong> (including break)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyelectrolyte Solutions: The least understood form of condensed matter by Ralph H. Colby,\u00a0The Pennsylvania State University, USA Polyelectrolytes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/2019\/08\/lecture-series-by-ralph-colby-october-28-30-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iRTG lecture series by Ralph Colby (October 28\/30, 2019) | part 2 and 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[97,90,96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}