Overview

This book provides insight into the underlying basic theories and concepts in X-ray, light, and neutron scattering. The three scattering principles are systematically presented, together with a unified description based on elastic scattering of electromagnetic waves and the Schrödinger wave from matter. These explanations are presented with an introduction of their common Born approximation using a consistent set of symbols and terminology and with step-by-step derivations of equations.   This book emphasizes the combined applications of these three scattering methods, wherever and whenever possible, as a very powerful methodology for characterization of internal structures of soft matters in the length scale ranging from subnanometers to a few 10 micron meters. These applications include explorations for evolution of hierarchically self-organized internal structures of a variety of soft matters, including cells, under diverse environmental conditions. This book will not only be an excellent resource for graduate students and academic researchers who analyze structures of soft matters and polymers, but it will also be useful for researchers in industries.

Full Product Details

9789811616471

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Takeji Hashimoto received degrees from Kyoto University (BS, 1965 and MS, 1967) and from the University of Massachusetts (MS,1969 and PhD, 1971). He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 1971 in the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University and was promoted to full Professor in 1994. His research interests include elucidation of mechanism and dynamics of self-organization of molecular assemblies in multicomponent polymer systems via phase transitions and phase separation in the absence (equilibrium systems) and presence (non-equilibrium systems) of externally applied fields (“polymer phasing” and “mechanics of polymer assemblies”). He has published 585 original aritcles, 58 review articles and contributed to 44 books.  He published the original articles in internationally renowned journals such as J. Chem. Phys, Phys. Rev. Lett. and Macromolecules. He has won various awards including the “High Polymer Physics Prize (Ford Prize)” from American Physical Society (March, 1987) for his research in “Scattering techniques to the elucidation of phase and order disorder transitions in complex polymeric systems with particular emphasis on structure, morphology and kinetics”.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available