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Question

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’s (“pee-air ZHEEL duh zhen’s”) 1991 Nobel Prize-winning work studied order phenomena in materials described by this adjective. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this adjective that describes entropy-dominated materials that readily deform, such as polymers and gels. Low-energy ionization in mass spectrometry, such as electrospray, is described by this adjective.

ANSWER: soft [accept soft ionization or soft matter or soft condensed matter]

[10e] Soft matter includes these materials, with which de Genne worked. These materials consist of parallel-aligned rods and are used in namesake electronic displays.

ANSWER: liquid crystals [or LC; accept liquid crystal displays or LCDs]

[10h] A hallmark property of some soft matter is the ability to undergo this process, which underlies “4D printing” and can be “template-guided.” Gold nanoparticles undergo this process due to the formation of metallophilic bonds.

ANSWER: self-assembly [accept self-organization; or word forms like self-assembled]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	83%	50%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	0%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	5.00	25%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	12.00	80%	30%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Case Western B	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Northwestern A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame B	Georgetown B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame A	Iowa	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	ESF A	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Missoui S&T	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Missouri	10	10	10	30
Purdue	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Texas B	TAMU	10	10	0	20
Texas A	ASU	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Yale A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley A	UCLA	0	0	0	0
Claremont A	UCSD	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Florida State A	10	10	0	20
Valencia A	Florida B	10	0	0	10
UCF C	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Winona State	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	0	0	0
BU	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Durham	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	NYU C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge C	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Sheffield	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
LSE	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Cambridge E	0	10	0	10