Doi, Masao <br/><br/>
Soft Matter Physics 

 - U.S.A:  Oxford University Press,  2013. 
 - 257p. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Contents; 1 What is soft matter?; 1.1 Polymers; 1.2 Colloids; 1.3 Surfactants; 1.4 Liquid crystals; 1.5 What is common in soft matter?; 1.6 Summary of this chapter; Further reading; 2 Soft matter solutions; 2.1 Thermodynamics of solutions; 2.2 Phase separation; 2.3 Lattice model; 2.4 Polymer solutions; 2.5 Colloidal solutions; 2.6 Multi-component solutions; 2.7 Summary of this chapter; Further reading; Exercises; 3 Elastic soft matter; 3.1 Elastic soft matter; 3.2 Elasticity of a polymer chain; 3.3 Kuhn's theory for rubber elasticity; 3.4 Polymer gels; 3.5 Summary of this chapter Further readingExercises; 4 Surfaces and surfactants; 4.1 Surface tension; 4.2 Wetting; 4.3 Surfactants; 4.4 Inter-surface potential; 4.5 Summary of this chapter; Further reading; Exercises; 5 Liquid crystals; 5.1 Nematic liquid crystals; 5.2 Mean field theory for the isotropic-nematic transition; 5.3 Landau-de Gennes theory; 5.4 Effect of a spatial gradient on the nematic order; 5.5 Onsager's theory for the isotropic-nematic transition of rod-like particles 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199652952 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Cellulaire automaten<br/>Granulair materiaal<br/>Hybride materialen<br/>Soft condensed matter<br/>Zachte materialen
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.41  / DOI/S