Laboratory for soft and complex matter studies

Experimental techniques & laboratory equipment

Sample preparation

  • Purification of colloids and nanostructured soft materials

Thermodynamics

  • Thermal Gravimetry AnalysisAtomic Force Microscopy image of nanolayered silicate particle
  • Differential scanning calorimetry
  • Rheometry including electrorheology, magnetorheology, and in-situ small angle light scattering rheometry

Surface analysis

  • Atomic Force Microscopy
  • Optical microscopy

Scattering/diffraction

  • X-ray scattering: 2D WAXS and SAXS.
  • Static and dynamic small angle light scattering.

Experiments performed outside the lab

  • Other COMPLEX labs at NTNU, IFE and UiO.
  • Neutron scattering/diffraction (IFE, Kjeller).
  • Synchrotron X-ray scattering at ESRF France, LNLS Brazil, PLS South Korea, Maxlab Lund Sweden, etc. Magnetic Resonance Imaging UFPE in Recife, Brazil.

Contact: Jon Otto Fossum

a) Optical microscope image of electro-rheological chain formation of nanoparticles in a cell of 1 mm electrode gap with an electrical field applied in the horizontal direction. b) Sketch of synchrotron X-ray scattering experiments showing incoming X-ray beam and scattering onto a 2-dimensional detector. The magnified area sketches a single nano-layered silicate particle inside a dipolar chain, and the attached arrow indicates the direction of the dipole moment induced by the external electric field.