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STRUCTURED FLUIDS
POLYMERS, COLLOIDS, SURFACTANTS |
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Thomas A. Witten |
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Hardback |
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£100.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0198526881 |
ISBN 13: |
9780198526889 |
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Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 January, 2004 |
Pages: |
230 |
Description: |
This book teaches undergraduates in physical science how to understand soft matter: fluids containing polymers, colloidal particles or surfactant molecules. These fluids are playing an increasing role in biotechnology and in basic science. The book gives a unified account of their distinctive properties such as their large viscosities or their weak elasticity using basic statistical principles. |
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Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial predictive power. These liquids expand our conception of what condensed matter can do. Such structured-fluid phenomena dominate the physical environment within living cells. This book teaches how to think of these fluids from a unified point of view, showing the far-reaching effects of thermal fluctuations in producing forces and motions. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, the book seeks the simplest explanations that account for the distinctive scaling properties of these fluids. An example is the growth of viscosity of a polymer solution as the cube of the molecular weight of the constituent polymers. Another is the hydrodynamic radius of a colloidal aggregate, which remains comparable to its geometrical radius even though the density of particles in the aggregate becomes arbitrarily small. The book aims for a simplicity, unity and depth not found in previous treatments. The text is supplemented by numerous figures, tables and problems to aid the student. |
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numerous halftones & figures |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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