Rational Continua, Classical and New A collection of papers dedicated to Gianfranco Capriz on the occasion of his 75th birthday

Heat Conduction in a Non-Inertial Frame.- Mediated Interactions of Proteins in Lipid Membranes.- Second-Order Surface Potentials in Finite Elasticity.- The Thermistor Problem with Thomson’s Effect.- Elastic Symmetry Restrictions from Structural Gradients.- Gaussian Curvature and Babuška’s Paradox in the Theory of Plates.- Rank 1 Convexity for a Class of Incompressible Elastic Materials.- A Continuum Description of Diatomic Systems.- Induced Anisotropy, Particle Spin, and Effective Moduli in Granular Materials.- On Uniqueness in Nonlinear Homogeneous Elasticity.- Twin Balance Laws for Bodies Undergoing Structured Motions.- On the Hysteresis in Martensitic Transformations.- Dissipative Fluids with Microstructure.- Some Questions on Material Objectivity Arising in Models of Porous Materials.- Simplifield Dynamics of a Continuous Peptide Chain.