The Oxford handbook of soft condensed matter / edited by Eugene M. Terentjev and David A. Weitz.

9780191858390 (ebook) :

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

1 online resource (xiii, 590 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

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This Handbook serves both as an introduction and an overview of the field of soft condensed matter. The discussion covers topics ranging from the fundamentals of colloid science to the principles and action of surfactants, modern directions of research in liquid crystals, and the key properties of foams. The book also explores the fundamental physics that controls the structure and mechanics of granular matter; how the unusual and often dramatic mechanical properties of concentrated polymer systems are determined by the physics of entanglements; the complex structures formed by block copolymers and the methods of structure analysis; rubber elasticity and new emerging classes of rubber-elastic materials; the physics of polyelectrolytes; the solvent dynamics in polymer gels, in equilibrium and under mechanical stress; and the hierarchical structure and characteristics of an extracellular matrix.

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March 08, 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Specialized.