Order from Disorder: Entropy-driven Forces & Phase Transitions

March 28, 2023
Stoney's British Pub

3007 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE

7:30pm

Arjun Yodh
Universty of Pennsylvania
“Order from Disorder: Entropy-driven Forces & Phase Transitions”
 

Entropy is typically associated with disorder, and so we associate more entropy with a bigger mess. In this lecture, I will discuss entropic phase transitions. In these counter-intuitive transitions, ordered phases such as crystals and liquid crystals are assembled by increasing system “disorder”.