Overview

The term ""soft condensed matter"" encompasses a wide range of substances which are neither ordinary solids nor ordinary liquids. They do have vestigial liquid and solid properties, but their character is much more complex and subtle. Systems range from foams and complex fluids to granular materials and biomaterials (proteins, DNA, membranes). The structural states they adopt are driven by subtle competition between intermolecular interaction energies and entropic forces, both of which are often close to thermal energies at room temperature. Configurations and their dynamic evolution are significant determinants of a wide variety of mesoscopic and microscopic properties. The book reviews both the language needed to discuss such systems, as well as basic questions about such phenomena as competing ground states, nonlinear feedback, and slow dynamics. The approach is pedagogical and tutorial. The level is appropriate to graduate researchers, either moving into the field or already active in it.

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Author:   A.T. Skjeltorp ,  Sam F. Edwards
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   552
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9780792364023

ISBN 10:   0792364023
Pages:   295
Publication Date:   31 August 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

What is soft condensed matter ?.- A cocktail of soft condensed matter.- Materials-driven science: From high Tc to complex adaptive matter.- Complex cooperative behaviour in frustrated systems.- Linking the messenger to the protein, a key to in vitro evolution.- A model for the thermodynamics of proteins.- Attachment and spreading of mammalian cells in vitro.- “Sausage-string” patterns in blood vessels at high blood pressures.- Equations of granular materials: Deposition theory.- Equations of granular materials: Transmission of stress.- Equations of granuar materials: Compactivity and compaction.- Modeling granular flows.- Crystalline architectures at the air-liquid interface: from nucleation to engineering.- X-ray and neutron scattering studies of complex confined fluids.- Speculations and calculations in the physics of foams.- Complex physical phenomena in clays.- Complex particle dynamics described by braid statistics.

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