Soft and Fragile Matter: Nonequilibrium Dynamics, Metastability and Flow (PBK) (Scottish Graduate Series)

Author: Cates, Michael E.
Brand: CRC Press
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 406
Release Date: 01-01-2000
EAN: 9780750307246
Languages: English

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.0 inches

Details:
Covering colloids, polymers, surfactant phases, emulsions, and granular media, Soft and Fragile Matter: Nonequilibrium Dynamics, Metastability and Flow provides self-contained, pedagogical coverage of the rapidly advancing field of systems driven out of equilibrium. The book focuses on unifying conceptual principles rather than material-specific details.

Written by internationally recognized experts, the book offers introductions at the graduate course level in soft condensed matter and statistical physics, covering topics like experimental techniques, polymers, rheology, colloids, computer simulation, surfactants, phase separation kinetics, driven systems, structural glasses, slow dynamics, and granular materials. These areas lead to applications at the forefront of current research, including microplasticity in emulsions, copolymer sequence design, branched polymer dynamics, nucleation kinetics in colloids, multiscale modeling, flow-induced surfactant textures, fluid demixing under shear, and much more.

Balancing theory, simulation, and experiment, this book serves as an excellent compendium for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, materials science, and physical chemistry.