Structured Fluids

TRAMA

Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial predictive power. These liquids expand our conception of what condensed matter can do. Such<BR>structured-fluid phenomena dominate the physical environment within living cells. This book teaches how to think of these fluids from a unified point of view, showing the far-reaching effects of thermal fluctuations in producing forces and motions. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, the book seeks<BR>the simplest explanations that account for the distinctive scaling properties of these fluids. An example is the growth of viscosity of a polymer solution as the cube of the molecular weight of the constituent polymers. Another is the hydrodynamic radius of a colloidal aggregate, which remains<BR>comparable to its geometrical radius even though the density of particles in the aggregate becomes arbitrarily small. The book aims for a simplicity, unity and depth not found in previous treatments. The text is supplemented by numerous figures, tables and problems to aid the student.

SOMMARIO

1 - Overview2 - Fundamentals3 - Polymer molecules4 - Polymer solutions5 - Colloids6 - Interfaces7 - Surfactants

AUTORE

Thomas A. Witten was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and a staff scientist at Exxon Research and Engineering before joining the University of Chicago in 1989 as a professor of physics.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198526889
• Dimensioni: 253 x 17.8 x 185 mm Ø 630 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous halftones & figures
• Pagine Arabe: 230