Soft Condensed Matter

TRAMA

Probably one of the most fashionable areas in the physical sciences today, 'Soft Condensed Matter' provides an excellent introduction to the topic, and includes colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, and amphiphiles. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of physics, chemistry, materials science and chemical engineering.

NOTE EDITORE

The physics of soft condensed matter is probably one of the most 'fashionable' areas in the physical sciences today. This book offers a coherent and clear introduction to the properties and behaviour of soft matter. It begins with a treatment of the general underlying principles: the relation of the structure and dynamics of solids and liquids to intermolecular forces, the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions, and the principles of self-assembly. Then the specific properties of colloids, polymers, liquid crystals and self-assembling amphiphilic systems are treated within this framework. A concluding chapter illustrates how principles of soft matter physics can be used to understand properties of biological systems. The focus on the essentials and the straightforward approach make the book suitable for students with either a theoretical or an experimental bias. The level is appropriate for final year undergraduates and beginning graduate students in physics, chemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction and overview2 - Forces, energies and timescales in condensed matter3 - Phase transitions4 - Colloidal dispersions5 - Polymers6 - Gelation7 - Molecular order on soft condensed matter - liquid crystallinity8 - Molecular order in soft condensed matter - crystallinity in polymers9 - Supramolecular self-assembly in soft condensed matter10 - Soft matter in natureA - Some results from statistical mechanicsB - The distribution function on an ideal random walk

AUTORE

Prof. Richard A.L. Jones, University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, Tel.: 0114/2224530, Fax: 0114/2728079, Email: r.a.l.jones@sheffield.ac.uk

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198505891
• Collana: Oxford Master Series in Physics
• Dimensioni: 246 x 12.4 x 190 mm Ø 415 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: numerous figures and halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 208