TY - GEN AU - Doi, Masao TI - Soft Matter Physics SN - 9780199652952 U1 - 530.41 PY - 2013/// CY - U.S.A PB - Oxford University Press KW - Cellulaire automaten KW - Granulair materiaal KW - Hybride materialen KW - Soft condensed matter KW - Zachte materialen N1 - 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 ER -