<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear Soft Matter Colleagues and Friends,</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">On Friday 22 January 2021 at 9:30 AM we are hosting a seminar during which</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><b class="">Anna Maciołek </b>(MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, and ICHF PAN)</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">will give a talk</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><b class="">Optically heated Janus colloids in a binary liquid mixture: motility and transient coarsening</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Abstract</b></div><div class="" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Colloidal particles covered by materials that absorb light receive an increasing attention in various fields of research and in many important applications, for example, bio-medical applications. Such particles become hot under illumination by laser. This gives rise to a variety of curious phenomena, which may be of practical use. For instance, an optically heated colloid suspended in a binary liquid mixture may self-propel or, if trapped by a laser beam, it becomes a microscopic engine.</span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Using a fluid particle dynamics approach we investigate a propulsion mechanism for a gold-capped Janus particle as a function of the wettability contrast between capped and uncapped sides of a Janus particle and of a heating power for symmetric and nonsymmetric binary solvent. We also have immobilized this particle in a narrow channel and study nonequilibrium dynamics of a binary solvent around it using experiment and theory. Our results demonstrate that a remarkably complex time evolution of the concentration field around the colloid is governed by combined effects of temperature gradient and wettability, and crucially depends on whether the colloid is free to move or trapped. Moreover, we discover an important role of transient dynamics for self-propulsion.</span></font></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">The seminar will be conducted on Zoom</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://zoom.us/j/92987083349?pwd=YTZLSFVWUnJzdE4xS1drR3dqMVFDdz09" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">https://zoom.us/j/92987083349?pwd=YTZLSFVWUnJzdE4xS1drR3dqMVFDdz09</font></a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">and will begin at <b class="">9:30AM</b>. </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Maciej Lisicki</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Marek Napiórkowski</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Piotr Szymczak</font></div></body></html>