Soft Matter Physics

✍ Scribed by F. Brochard-Wyart (auth.), Mohamed Daoud, Claudine E. Williams (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 335
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

What do colloids, fractals, liquid crystals, and polymers have in common? Nothing at first sight. Yet the distance scales, the energy transfers, the way these objects react to an external field are very similar. For the first time, this book offers an introduction to the physics of these soft materials in one single volume. A variety of experiments and concepts are presented, including the phenomena of capillarity and wetting, fractals, small volumes and large surfaces, colloids, surfactants, giant micelles and fluid membranes, polymers, and liquid crystals. Each chapter is written by experts in the field with the aim of making the book accessible to the widest possible scientific audience: graduate students, lecturers, and research scientists in physics, chemistry, and other disciplines. Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes inspired this book and has written a foreword.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Droplets: Capillarity and Wetting....Pages 1-46
Fractals....Pages 47-86
Small Volumes and Large Surfaces: The World of Colloids....Pages 87-132
The Physicochemistry of Surfactants....Pages 133-154
From Giant Micelles to Fluid Membranes: Polymorphism in Dilute Solutions of Surfactant Molecules....Pages 155-186
Polymers Formed from Self-Assembled Structures....Pages 187-218
Polymer Materials....Pages 219-260
Polymer Solutions: A Geometric Introduction....Pages 261-288
Liquid Crystals: Between Order and Disorder....Pages 289-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-320

✦ Subjects

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Condensed Matter Physics; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Polymer Sciences; Physical Chemistry

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