Overview

Soft condensed matter is a relatively new topic. Condensed matter has typically referred to more traditional liquids, which have a long history of study, or to solids, which have focused more commonly on hard materials, driven in large measure by the importance of structural materials or the metals and semiconductors which drove the rapid evolution of microelectronics. It is only relatively recently, over the past 20 to 30 years, that soft condensed matter has matured into its own identifiable field. However, the field is an amalgam of many subfields, and many of these have themselves much longer histories. This handbook serves as an overview of many of these topics. Because of the great breadth, it is impossible to include them all; nevertheless, the key subjects of soft condensed matter are represented here. Together, they form both an introduction and an overview of the field. Each topic, and its representing Chapter, could have been a full size book - in fact, there are a number of such books on many of the topics covered in the handbook. Our aim here was to give a current snapshot of the field, identify the key principles at play and the most prominent (and promising) ways of its further development, provide essential references for anyone to follow the subject, but not necessarily go into a lot of detail on each topic.

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Author:   Eugene M. Terentjev (Professor of Polymer Physics, Professor of Polymer Physics, University of Cambridge) ,  David A. Weitz (Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.292kg
ISBN:  

9780198812166

ISBN 10:   0198812167
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   25 January 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Wilson C. K. Poon: Colloidal Suspensions 2: Dominique Langevin: Surfactants 3: Oleg D. Lavrentovich: Liquid Crystals 4: Denis Weaire and Stefan Hutzler: Foams 5: Raphael Blumenfeld, Sam F. Edwards and Stephen M. Walley: Granular Systems 6: Ronald G. Larson and Zuowei Wang: Dynamics of Entangled Polymers 7: Lee M. Trask, Nacú Hernandez and Eric W. Cochran: Block Copolymers 8: James E. Mark and Burak Erman: Elastomers and Rubberlike Elasticity 9: Andrey V. Dobrynin: Polyelectrolyte Solutions and Gels 10: Masao Doi: Fluid Transport in Gels 11: Astrid van der Horst and Gijs J. L. Wuite: Extracellular Matrix 12: Matthieu Piel and Raphael Voituriez: Cell Cytoskeleton 13: Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta: Interfaces and Membranes

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Eugene M. Terentjev is Professor of Polymer Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK. David A. Weitz is Professor of Physics & Applied Physics at Harvard University, Director of the Harvard Materials Research Science & Engineering Center, and Co-Director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA.

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