We are part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 910 under the project B2: Control of dynamical structures and transport in driven colloidal systems!

Project summary:

The present project aims at developing control strategies for dynamical phenomena in colloidal systems. In the upcoming funding period we will focus on
a) open-loop and feedback control of oscillatory dynamics and local structure under shear
b) transport under a time-delayed feedback force
c) feedback control of spatiotemporal dynamics on the mesoscale.

New aspects concern the interplay of control and thermodynamics, as well as control in active systems.
We employ a spectrum of methods including stochastic delay equations, Fokker-Planck equations, particle-based simulations, and continuum theory.
The results will be relevant in the areas of rheology, nanotribology and single-particle manipulation.

DFG-Einzelprojekt KL 1215/10-1 Systematic variation of the rheology of wormlike micelles - experiment and theoretical description (in cooperation with Prof. M. Gradzielski)

DFG-Einzelprojekt KL 1215/11-1 Self-assembly and self-organisation in fluctuating systems of dipolar colloids: Towards a coarse-grained theoretical description

• DFG-Einzelprojekt KL 1215/8-3 (SPP1681) Computer simulations and theory of Hybrid materials composed of ferrocolloids in liquid-crystalline hosts
• Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 951 HIOS, Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Systems for Opto-Electronics
• Research Training Group (RTG) 1558 Nonlinear Collective Dynamics in Condensed Matter and Biological Systems
• International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1524 Self-assembled soft matter nanostructures at interfaces