Soft Condensed Matter / Edition 1

by Richard A.L. Jones

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198505891
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/29/2002
Series:	Oxford Master Series in Physics , #6
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,160,639
Product dimensions:	9.68(w) x 7.46(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and overview2. Forces, energies, and timescales in condensed matter3. Phase transitions4. Colloidal dispersions5. Polymers6. Gelation7. Molecular order in 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 of an ideal random walkC. Answers to selected problems

Editorial Reviews

"[A] need has long existed for texts suitable for an introductory graduate or senior undergraduate course. Soft Condensed Matter, by Richard A. L. Jones, is the first textbook to meet that need. ... It should make teaching much easier, which in turn should result in many more soft acondensed matter courses being offered. That will surely help the field to grow even more."—Physics Today

"The book is targeted at final-year undergraduates and graduate students, but I would push it in front of anyone starting to work with polymers, oils or concentrated dispersions in industry - even an old lag like myself found a number of interesting new insights. ... I hope that [Jones] can be persuaded to write a volume 2."—Chemistry in Britain

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