Institut für Experimentelle Physik I (EXPI)

The Institute for Experimental Physics I
 
The research of the Institute for Experimental Physics I is focused on soft condensed matter as bulk material, in interaction with surfaces and interfaces, but as well as single molecules. For that a variety of different experimental approaches have to be employed, e.g. spectroscopic techniques (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Ultraviolet (UV), Visible (Vis), Infrared (IR), and Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS)), scattering techniques (Photon-Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS), X-ray and neutron scattering), and a manifold of methods to manipulate and characterize single molecules (Optical Tweezers, Optical Strechers, Single Molecule Detection (SMD)) using fluorescence emission and experiments with isolated nanometric holes. The systems under study cover a wealth like small tracer molecules, liquid crystals, polymers, polymer-networks, proteins, and even living biological cells. It is objective of the research of the Institute of Experimental Physics I to explore the physical basis of structure-property relationships in these systems.