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This revised edition continues to provide the most approachable introduction to the structure, characteristics, and everyday applications of soft matter. It begins with a substantially revised overview of the underlying physics and chemistry common to soft materials. Subsequent chapters comprehensively address the different classes of soft materials, from liquid crystals to surfactants, polymers, colloids, and biomaterials, with vivid, full-color illustrations throughout. There are new worked examples throughout, new problems, some deeper mathematical treatment, and new sections on key topics such as diffusion, active matter, liquid crystal defects, surfactant phases and more.

Soft condensed matter. --- Matière molle (physique)

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Soft condensed matter. --- Phase transformations (Statistical physics) --- Critical phenomena (Physics) --- Matière molle (Physique) --- Transformations de phase (Physique statistique) --- Phénomène critique (Physique)

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Alors que la quête de l'infiniment petit semblait seule capable de donner accès aux secrets de la matière, les chercheurs ont attiré l'attention sur les propriétés de la matière à moyenne échelle - celle sous laquelle nous la rencontrons le plus souvent. On ne s'étonnera donc pas d'entendre ici disserter sur la mayonnaise et les sables mouvants, les cristaux liquides et le caoutchouc, mais on sera surpris par l'étrange caractère de cette matière dite molle ou sensible, capable sous l'effet d'une infime modification de changer radicalement de comportement. C'est un chapitre inédit de l'histoire de la matière que ce livre donne à lire, en invitant à la penser différemment. Ainsi que l'affirme en conclusion de sa préface Jean-Claude Carrière : Voici que la matière, après des millénaires d'humiliation, donne des leçons à l'esprit. Au moins des leçons de vocabulaire. Juste retour des mots, sinon des choses.

Soft condensed matter. --- Colloids. --- Rheology. --- Materials. --- Matière molle (Physique) --- Colloïdes --- Rhéologie --- Matériaux --- Soft condensed matter --- Colloids --- Materials --- Physics - Soft Matter --- Matière molle (Physique) --- Colloïdes --- Rhéologie --- Matériaux

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This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Geilo, Norway, 24 March - 3 April 2003, the seventeenth ASI in a series held every two years since 1971. The objective of this ASI was to identify and discuss areas where synergism between modern physics, soft condensed matter and biology might be most fruitful. The main pedagogical approach was to have lecturers focussing on basic understanding of important aspects of the relative role of the various interaction- electrostatic, hydrophobic, steric, conformational, van der Waals etc. Soft condensed matter and the connection between physics and biology have been the themes of several earlier Geilo Schools. A return to these subjects thus allowed a fresh look and a possibility for defining new directions for research. Examples of soft materials, which were discussed at this ASI, included colloidal dispersions, gels, biopolymers and charged polymer solutions, polyelectrolytes, protein/membrane complexes, nucleic acids and their complexes. Indeed, most forms of condensed matter are soft and these substances are composed of aggregates and macromolecules, with interactions that are too weak and complex to form crystals spontaneously. A characteristic feature is that small external forces, slight perturbations in temperature, pressure or concentration, can all be enough to induce significant structural changes. Thermal fluctuations are almost by definition strong in soft materials and entropy is a predominant determinant of structure, so that disorder, slow dynamics and plastic deformation are the rule. Hence the phrase ‘soft condensed matter’ has been coined.

Soft condensed matter --- Biophysics --- Condensed matter --- Matter, Soft (Condensed matter) --- Matter, Soft condensed --- Soft matter (Condensed matter) --- Complex fluids --- Matière molle (Physique) --- Biophysique --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVPHYSI SPRINGER-B

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"The properties of everyday soft materials such as polymers, rubbers, gels, colloids, and liquid crystals that touch every aspect of our lives cannot be understood without an introduction to the fundamental science behind molecular self-assembly and the physics of these materials. Designed to provide an introduction for mid to upper-level undergraduates, this book can also provide useful resource for graduate students or more senior scientists of all levels new to the field of soft matter"--

Soft condensed matter. --- Matière molle (Physique) --- Soft condensed matter --- SCIENCE / Chemistry / General --- SCIENCE / Solid State Physics --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Material Science --- 62-039.1 --- 62-039.5 --- 678.076 --- Matter, Soft (Condensed matter) --- Matter, Soft condensed --- Soft matter (Condensed matter) --- Condensed matter --- Complex fluids --- 678.076 Soft materials --- Soft materials --- 62-039.5 Polymer matrix composites --- Polymer matrix composites --- Biomaterialen