Soft Condensed Matter
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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.Features
- Written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
- Emphasis on physical principles.
- Unified treatment of polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and amphiphiles.
- Applications of soft condensed matter physics in biology.
- Quantitative treatment using straightforward theoretical models.
- Many illustrative problems.
- Pointers to more advanced literature.
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
Product Details
230 pages; 10 halftones, 108 line illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-850590-7ISBN10: 0-19-850590-6About the Author(s)
Richard A.L. Jones, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield
