Departmental seminar on 4nd May 2022
This time we have a public habilitation lecture of RNDr. Peter Košovan, Ph.D.. The topic of his lecture is Acid-base equilibria at the nanoscale .
Acid-base equilibria are ubiquitous in Chemistry, both in everyday routine work and in research. They are taught in secondary-school courses of Chemistry and then again later, in undergraduate courses of General Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry. The basic concepts of acid, base, pH and the degree of ionisation are well established and familiar to every chemist. Nevertheless, a lot of confusion appears when these concepts are applied to complex systems at the nanoscale, such as solutions of polyelectrolytes, polyampholytes, charged biomacromolecules, self-organized polymer nanostructures, polymers at interfaces or two-phase systems containing macromolecules or supramolecular aggregates.
In this lecture, we will present a selection of results of our research, bridging the gap between simulations and experimental investigations of acid-base equilibria in macromolecular systems. The lessons learned from these results provide important clues on how the acid-base properties of complex fluids differ from the established picture described in textbooks.
The seminar will take place in the lecture hall CH3 in person.
The online option remains available only on special request (e.g., for colleagues who are ill/injured or have any other important reason for which they cannot come).
