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What do colloids, fractals, liquid crystals, and polymers have in common? Nothing at first sight. Yet the distance scales, the energy transfers, the way these objects react to an external field are very similar. For the first time, this book offers an introduction to the physics of these soft materials in one single volume. A variety of experiments and concepts are presented, including the phenomena of capillarity and wetting, fractals, small volumes and large surfaces, colloids, surfactants, giant micelles and fluid membranes, polymers, and liquid crystals. Each chapter is written by experts in the field with the aim of making the book accessible to the widest possible scientific audience: graduate students, lecturers, and research scientists in physics, chemistry, and other disciplines. Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes inspired this book and has written a foreword.

Statistical physics --- Soft condensed matter. --- Matière molle (Physique) --- 678.076 --- 678.0 --- 541.18 --- Soft materials --- General information. Properties. Analysis and testing. Manufacturing processes, plant and equipment. Products and their applications --- Colloid chemistry. Chemistry of adsorption phenomena. Capillary chemistry --- 541.18 Colloid chemistry. Chemistry of adsorption phenomena. Capillary chemistry --- 678.0 General information. Properties. Analysis and testing. Manufacturing processes, plant and equipment. Products and their applications --- 678.076 Soft materials --- Matière molle (Physique) --- Soft condensed matter --- Condensed matter --- Matter, Soft (Condensed matter) --- Matter, Soft condensed --- Soft matter (Condensed matter) --- Complex fluids --- Amorphous substances. --- Complex fluids. --- Condensed matter. --- Materials—Surfaces. --- Thin films. --- Polymers  . --- Physical chemistry. --- Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. --- Condensed Matter Physics. --- Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films. --- Polymer Sciences. --- Physical Chemistry. --- Chemistry, Theoretical --- Physical chemistry --- Theoretical chemistry --- Chemistry --- Polymere --- Polymeride --- Polymers and polymerization --- Macromolecules --- Films, Thin --- Solid film --- Solid state electronics --- Solids --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Coatings --- Thick films --- Condensed materials --- Condensed media --- Condensed phase --- Materials, Condensed --- Media, Condensed --- Phase, Condensed --- Liquids --- Matter --- Complex liquids --- Fluids, Complex --- Amorphous substances --- DROPS --- FRACTALS --- COLLOIDS --- SURFACTANTS --- MEMBRANES (NONBIOLOGICAL) --- POLYMERS --- LIQUID CRYSTALS --- ORIENTATIONAL ORDER --- PROPERTIES