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

Rok: 2000
ISBN: 9780750307246
OKCZID: 110132847

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CATES, M. E., ed. a EVANS, M. R., ed. Soft and fragile matter: nonequilibrium dynamics, metastability and flow : proceedings of the Fifty Third Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, July®1999. Philadelphia: Copublished by Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics & Institute of Physics Publishing, 2000. xi, 393 s. Scottish graduate textbook series, 53.

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Soft and Fragile Matter covers colloids, polymers, surfactant phases, emulsions and granular media. Recent advances in all these areas have stemmed from vastly enhanced experimental and simulation capabilities, and from fundamental theoretical studies of systems driven out of equilibrium. For example, 'jamming' in colloids under flow may be related to fundamental work on nonequilibrium phase transitions. Likewise, 'ageing' and plastic reorganization under stress, found in soft gels, dense emulsions and other soft materials, may relate to more general concepts of glassy dynamics and coarsening. The book gives a self-contained and pedagogical coverage of this rapidly advancing field, with a strong emphasis on unifying conceptual principles rather than material-specific details. Each chapter is written by an internationally recognised expert, and the book has been carefully edited to enhance its usefulness. The book contains introductions, at the level of a graduate course in soft condensed matter and/or statistical phyiscs, to the following areas: experimental techniques, polymers, rheology, colloids, computer simulation, surfactants, phase separation kinetics, driven systems, structural glasses, slow dynamics, and granular materials. These lead into a range of exciting applications at the forefront of current research. Such topics include: microplasticity of emulsions, sequence design of copolymers, branched polymer dynamics, nucleation kinetics in colloids, multiscale modelling, flow-induced surfactant textures, fluid demixing under shear, two-time correlation functions, chaotic sedimentation dynamics, and sound propagation in powders.

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