Softbio2000

Informations projet

SOFTBIO2000

N° de convention de subvention: HPCF-CT-1999-00130

Date de début 12 Août 1999

Date de fin

Financé au titre de

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Coût total € 35 000,00

Contribution de l’UE € 72 200,00

Coordonné par

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
Germany

Objectif

Soft matter usually deals with research on materials that are not only mechanically soft, but, and more importantly, particularly prone to thermal fluctuation effects. Of particular interest are charged soft matter systems. They can be manufactured artificially like synthetic charged polymers (polyelectrolytes), which serve as superabsorbers in dypers, as flocculation and retention agents, as thickening and gelling agents, and as oil-recovery process aids. They appear however also abundant in all living organisms, since most of biologically relevant matter carries quite a large number of charges.

Most of these materials perform important structural (e.g. membranes) and functional (e.g. DNA) tasks in the living matter that makes this interdisciplinary field particularly fascinating, moreover is should be of particular relevance for understanding the intricacies of the biological world. It can lead to such dramatic effects that thermal fluctuations and electrostatic interactions can revert the effective force between two equal charges in solution from repulsive to attractive. This is certainly not the only surprise in store in the world of the soft and the charged. The conformational behaviour of DNA, "the molecule" itself, appears to be governed to a large extend by this intricate interplay of electrostatics and Brownian motion.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.

• sciences naturelles › sciences biologiques › génétique › ADN
• sciences naturelles › sciences physiques › physique de la matière condensée › physique de la matière molle
• sciences naturelles › sciences chimiques › science des polymères
• sciences médicales et de la santé › sciences de la santé › maladie infectieuse › virus à ARN › VIH

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Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Thème(s)

• 1.4.1.-3.1. - High-level Scientific Conferences

Appel à propositions

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Régime de financement

SC - High Level Scientific Conference

Coordinateur

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

• Contribution de l’UE: Aucune donnée
• Adresse: Seestr. 92 ; 70174 STUTTGART ; Allemagne
• Coût total: Aucune donnée