Special seminar: Freezing soft materials

Abstract
I will talk about three separate problems involving the freezing of soft matter. Firstly, I will explain why soft, wet materials break when they freeze (and why it’s not what most people expect). Secondly, I will demonstrate how we can use freezing to easily measure hard-to-obtain properties of soft, wet materials (e.g. permeability and osmotic pressure). Finally, I will show how we use freezing to organise colloids into complex patterns.