Laboratory ofPhysics

The Laboratory of Physics (LP) is engaged in research in the physics of biological, lipid and liquid-crystal membranes and surfaces, statistical physics, electrostatics and simulations of the electric double layer and plasma, equilibrium forms of closed thin elastic shells, synthesis of semiconductor and metal nanostructured surfaces and particles and the technique of isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles.

Among other things, LP colleagues contributed to the development of theoretical methods in the field of physics and electrostatics of strongly curved surfaces and the physics of interactions of nanoparticles in electrolyte solutions with an electrically nanostructured surface. Here, it is necessary to highlight the introduction of anisotropy in the theoretical description of strongly curved membrane surfaces and the consideration of the distribution of electric charge on the surface and inside the nanoparticles. Members of the LP also contributed significantly to the development of theoretical electrostatics of semiconductor and metallic nanostructured surfaces. Among other things, they explained experimentally and theoretically and with the help of simulations some types of mediated attractive interactions between equally charged surfaces.

The results of LP research are also directly applicable in clinical studies and clinical practice, as well as in the field of optimizing the surface and shape of various implants, such as vascular stents. LP members, among other things, in cooperation with the Clinical Biophysics Laboratory at the Faculty of Health, have also developed a computer-supported system for biomechanical planning of surgical interventions in orthopedics and traumatology.

Head: prof. ddr. Aleš Iglič

Website: http://physics.fe.uni-lj.si/