报告题目： Colloidal diffusion over complex potential landscapes: From periodic, quasi-periodic and random potentials to live cell membranes

报告人： Prof. Penger Tong

（Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology）

报告时间： 2017年8月25日（周五）下午2:30

报告地点： 物理新楼多功能报告厅

报告摘要：Energy landscape is an important concept in science, which has been widely used in many areas of physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. Applications of the energy landscape concept can be found in the calculation and measurement of the chemical reaction rate, lifetime of single molecular bonds, folding kinetics of proteins, and phase diagram of complex materials. Our general understanding of this type of problems is through the well-known Arrhenius-Kramers equation, which was obtained under an idealized condition for a single energy barrier. For many practical applications, however, one often encounters complex energy landscapes. There are few experimental systems in which one can actually visualize the energy landscape, and thus much of the work done so far is through computer simulations. A physical model system in which one can directly measure the energy landscape and track individual particle trajectories would be extremely valuable in testing different theoretical ideas. In this talk, I will present our recent efforts in developing a two-layer colloidal system to study colloidal transport and dynamics over complex potential landscapes [1-5]. This work opens up a whole new realm of investigation at the single-particle level for a range of interesting problems associated with the diffusive and forced barrier-crossing dynamics over complex energy landscapes. Example of applications of this system will be discussed.

[1] “Colloidal diffusion over a periodic energy landscape,” X.-G. Ma, P.-Y. Lai, and P. Tong, Soft Matter 9, 8775 (2013) (featured on the cover page of the issue).

[2] “Colloidal transport and diffusion over a tilted periodic potential: dynamics of individual particles,” X.-G. Ma, P.-Y. Lai, B. J. Ackerson, and P. Tong, Soft Matter, 11, 1182 (2015).

[3] “Colloidal diffusion over a quasicrystalline-patterned surface,” Y. Su, P.-Y. Lai, B. J. Ackerson, X. Cao, Y.-L. Han, and P. Tong, J. Chem. Phys. 146, 214903 (2017) [Editors’ Pick].

[4] “Colloidal diffusion over a quenched two-dimensional random potential,” Y. Su, X.-G. Ma, P.-Y. Lai and P. Tong, Soft Matter 13, 4773 (2017).

[5] “Dynamic heterogeneity and non-Gaussian statistics for acetylcholine receptors on live cell membrane,” W. He, H. Song, Y. Su, L. Geng, B. J. Ackerson, H. B. Peng, and P. Tong, Nature Communications, 7:11701 (2016).

邀请人：石兢教授 谭志杰教授