Browsing Fakultät für Physik (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor "Herminghaus, Stephan Prof. Dr."
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Structure and Dynamics of Discussions on the Social Media Platform Reddit
(2024-05-28)The last fifteen years have witnessed a tremendous rise in the impact of online social media on our lives. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit have radically changed the way we communicate and consume ... -
Sustainable mobility with bi-modal public transport
(2024-02-27)The escalating problems of pollution, traffic congestion, resource consumption, and environmental degradation are becoming increasingly significant due to the growing demand for urban mobility. This mounting crisis is ... -
Resource Bounded Agency in Public goods Games
(2023-07-28)The new and emerging field of sociophysics aims to explain and understand collective behavior demonstrated by humans in a variety of domains. This usually requires to make some assumptions about the microscopic inter-human ... -
Liquid Crystal Microswimmers - from single entities to collective dynamics
(2016-11-15)Recently, artificial self-propelled systems at low Reynolds numbers have gained a lot of attention. The main interest lies in mimicking well-studied systems, e.g. the active Brownian motion of bacteria, or in gaining deeper ... -
Length scales in granular matter
(2013-04-24)Jammed packings of granular materials differ from thermal systems normally described by statistical mechanics. In recent years a statistical mechanics of static granular media has emerged by using the volume of the system ... -
Elasticity and Morphology of Wet Fiber Networks
(2011-12-05)Fibrous materials are very commonplace in current technological applications. The study of their mechanics is an interesting topic that has previously been inspired by applications in the ... -
Towards autonomous soft matter systems: Experiments on membranes and active emulsions
(2011-09-02)This thesis presents experiments on lipid bilayer membranes and non-equilibrium phenomena in active emulsion droplets. In the first part, we outline a concept of self assembled soft matter ... -
Numerical simulations of wet granular matter
(2010-05-06)Wet granular matter is a useful system for studing the dynamics which emerge in systems far from thermal equilibrium. It is easily accessible by experiments as well as simulations. With the ... -
Experimental investigations of the mechanical properties of wet granular matter
(2010-05-05)Granular media are omnipresent in every day life. Examples are the cereals we eat, pharmaceutical products, piece goods in industry, or sand on the beach. A dry granular material, like sand, ... -
AFM Untersuchungen an smektischen Flüssigkristallen
(2009-08-12)This thesis presents an experimental study of focal conic domains in smectic liquid crystal films on solid substrates. Focal conic domains are complex structures in smectic phases and are ... -
Fest-Flüssig Übergänge in Schüttgütern
(2009-08-04)In this thesis, the stability and the dynamics of wet granular materials under shear are explored. Inspired by the Green"s function approach, a theoretical model for yielding of a wet pile ... -
Entropy Production and Phase Transitions far from Equilibrium with Emphasis on Wet Granular Matter
(2008-11-14)This thesis investigates irreversible dynamics. It is shown analytically that the recent Fluctuation Theorem extends to relativistic dynamics. In the analytic consideration of non-relativistic ... -
Manipulation of Wetting Morphologies in Topographically Structured Substrates
(2008-02-11)In the present work, static liquid morphologies confined to linear micron sized surface grooves were studied experimentally and analyzed theoretically. Geometries with increasing complexities, ...