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Professor Philip A. Pincus,
IRG1 Leader
Phone: 805-893 4685, Fax: 805-893 8797
E-mail:
fyl@physics.ucsb.edu
Soft condensed matter theory; hydrosoluble polymers;
membranes; polymer-membrane interactions; Coulomb effects in complex fluids;
membrane bound proteins.
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Professor Pincus received his PhD in Physics at UC
Berkeley in 1962 with C. Kittel on spin wave theory; he then did a post-doc
at Saclay working in Abragam's group with de Gennes on problems in
magnetism. Over the years he has maintained a close relationship with the
de Gennes group in Paris. His research interests have evolved from
magnetism to superconductivity to liquid crystals to strongly correlated
electrons in organic conductors to polymer physics. Over the last few years
group has it's focus on theoretical physics of soft condensed matter.
Current interests are problems which are inspired by biomolecular questions.
For example, we are currently involved in electrostatic aspects of
chromatin structure, DNA/cationic liposome complexes, correlation and
fluctuation forces between highly charged surfaces.
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Appointments, Honors, and Awards
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1962 Saclay France
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, 1973
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1975 Orsay
- Joliot Curie Professor (ESPCI), 1981
- Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer in
Physics Tel Aviv (1988)
- High Polymer Physics Prize of the APS (Ford Prize, 1992)
- Eli Burstein Lecturer in Materials Science,
University of Pennsylvania (1998)
Some specific research projects and references
- R. Bruinsma and P. Pincus, "Protein Aggregation in Membranes",
Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science, 1, 401 (1996)
- P.A. Pincus and S. A. Safran, "Charge Fluctuations and
membrane attractions", Europhys. Lett., 42, 103 (1998)
- A.W.C. Lau and P. Pincus, "Charge-Fluctuation-Induced Nonanalytic Bending
Rigidity", Phys. Rev. Lett., 81, 138-1341 (1998)
- H. Schiessel and P. Pincus, "Counterion-Condensation-Induced Collapse of
Highly Charged Polyelectrolytes", Macromolecules, 31, 7953 (1998)
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