Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids: New Aspects of the Physics-Chemistry Interface - Couverture souple

 
9783642760105: Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids: New Aspects of the Physics-Chemistry Interface

Synopsis

This book contains vivid presentations of experiments, general theoretical accounts, and computer simulations of complex fluids such as polymers, liquid crystals, gels, and colloids. Explanations in terms of concepts coming from statistical physics are emphasized.

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The study of complex fluids is a vigorously evolving field of condensed matter physics with a highly interdisciplinary nature. Because this area is diverse and still in its infancy, the aim of the symposium was to clarify its definition by highlighting various problems. Experimental contributions to this volume reveal intriguing dynamical phenomena in polymers, liquid crys- tals, gels, colloids, and surfactant systems. These complex fluids are then treated in terms of defects, mesoscopic ordering, patterns, nonlinear response, and random interfaces, which are all of importance in current statistical physics.

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