Jones, Richard A. L <br/><br/>
Soft condensed matter 

 - Oxford,  Oxford University Press   2002 
 - 195P 
<br/><br/>	Introduction and overview<br/>1	(4)<br/>What is soft condensed matter?<br/>1	(1)<br/>Soft matter---an overview<br/>2	(3)<br/>Forces, energies, and timescales in condensed matter<br/>5	(20)<br/>Introduction<br/>5	(1)<br/>Gases, liquids, and solids<br/>5	(5)<br/>Intermolecular forces<br/>5	(3)<br/>Condensation and freezing<br/>8	(2)<br/>Viscous, elastic, and viscoelastic behaviour<br/>10	(6)<br/>The response of matter to a shear stress<br/>10	(3)<br/>Understanding the mechanical response of matter at a molecular level<br/>13	(3)<br/>Liquids and glasses<br/>16	(9)<br/>Practical glass-forming systems<br/>16	(1)<br/>Relaxation time and viscosity in glass-forming liquids<br/>17	(1)<br/>The experimental glass transition<br/>18	(3)<br/>Understanding the glass transition<br/>21	(4)<br/>Phase transitions<br/>25	(24)<br/>Phase transitions in soft matter<br/>25	(1)<br/>Liquid-liquid unmixing---equilibrium phase diagrams<br/>26	(6)<br/>Interfaces between phases and interfacial tension<br/>31	(1)<br/>Liquid-liquid unmixing---kinetics of phase separation<br/>32	(9)<br/>Two mechanisms of phase separation<br/>32	(1)<br/>Spinodal decomposition<br/>33	(4)<br/>Nucleation<br/>37	(1)<br/>Growth in the late stages of phase separation<br/>38	(3)<br/>The liquid-solid transition---freezing and melting<br/>41	(8)<br/>Kinetics of the liquid-solid transition---homogeneous nucleation<br/>42	(2)<br/>Kinetics of the liquid-solid transition---heterogeneous nucleation<br/>44	(1)<br/>Solidification---stability of a growing solidification front<br/>45	(4)<br/>Colloidal dispersions<br/>49	(24)<br/>Introduction<br/>49	(1)<br/>A single colloidal particle in a liquid---Stokes' law and Brownian motion<br/>50	(2)<br/>Stokes' law<br/>50	(1)<br/>Brownian motion and the Einstein equation<br/>50	(2)<br/>Forces between colloidal particles<br/>52	(10)<br/>Interatomic forces and interparticle forces<br/>52	(1)<br/>Van der Waals forces<br/>53	(5)<br/>Electrostatic double-layer forces<br/>58	(2)<br/>Stabilising polymers with grafted polymer layers<br/>60	(1)<br/>Depletion interactions<br/>61	(1)<br/>Stability and phase behaviour of colloids<br/>62	(6)<br/>Crystallisation of hard-sphere colloids<br/>62	(3)<br/>Colloids with longer ranged repulsion<br/>65	(1)<br/>Colloids with weakly attractive interactions<br/>66	(1)<br/>Colloids with strongly attractive interactions<br/>67	(1)<br/>Flow in concentrated dispersions<br/>68	(5)<br/>Polymers<br/>73	(22)<br/>Introduction<br/>73	(1)<br/>The variety of polymeric materials<br/>73	(4)<br/>Polymer chemistry<br/>74	(1)<br/>Stereochemistry<br/>75	(1)<br/>Architecture<br/>76	(1)<br/>Copolymers<br/>76	(1)<br/>Physical state<br/>77	(1)<br/>Random walks and the dimensions of polymer chains<br/>77	(8)<br/>The freely jointed chain and its Gaussian limit<br/>78	(1)<br/>Real polymer chains---short-range correlations<br/>79	(1)<br/>Excluded volume, the theta temperature, and coil-globule transitions<br/>80	(2)<br/>Chain statistics in polymer melts---the Flory theorem<br/>82	(1)<br/>Measuring the size of polymer chains<br/>82	(2)<br/>Polymers at interfaces---adsorbed and grafted chains<br/>84	(1)<br/>Rubber elasticity<br/>85	(1)<br/>Viscoelasticity in polymers and the reptation model<br/>86	(9)<br/>Characterising the viscoelastic behaviour of polymers<br/>86	(2)<br/>Linear viscoelasticity and the Boltzmann superposition principle<br/>88	(1)<br/>The temperature dependence of viscoelastic properties: time-temperature superposition<br/>88	(1)<br/>Viscoelasticity: experimental results for monodisperse linear polymer melts<br/>89	(1)<br/>Entanglements<br/>90	(1)<br/>The tube model and the theory of reptation<br/>91	(2)<br/>Modifications to reptation theory<br/>93	(2)<br/>Gelation<br/>95	(9)<br/>Introduction<br/>95	(1)<br/>Classes of gel<br/>96	(1)<br/>Chemical gels<br/>96	(1)<br/>Physical gels<br/>97	(1)<br/>The theory of gelation<br/>97	(7)<br/>The percolation model<br/>97	(1)<br/>The classical theory of gelation---the Flory-Stockmayer model<br/>98	(2)<br/>Non-classical exponents in the percolation model<br/>100	(1)<br/>The elasticity of gels<br/>100	(4)<br/>Molecular order in soft condensed matter---liquid crystallinity<br/>104	(25)<br/>Introduction<br/>104	(1)<br/>Introduction to liquid crystal phases<br/>105	(2)<br/>The nematic/isotropic transition<br/>107	(4)<br/>Distortions and topological defects in liquid crystals<br/>111	(3)<br/>Generalised rigidity and the elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal<br/>111	(1)<br/>Boundary effects<br/>112	(1)<br/>Disclinations, dislocations, and other topological defects<br/>113	(1)<br/>The electrical and magnetic properties of liquid crystals<br/>114	(2)<br/>The Frederiks transition and liquid crystal displays<br/>116	(2)<br/>Polymer liquid crystals<br/>118	(11)<br/>Rigid polymers<br/>118	(1)<br/>Helix coil transitions<br/>118	(4)<br/>The isotropic/nematic transition for ideal hard rods<br/>122	(4)<br/>Transitions in real lyotropic systems<br/>126	(1)<br/>Thermotropic liquid crystal phases<br/>126	(3)<br/>Molecular order in soft condensed matter---crystallinity in polymers<br/>129	(7)<br/>Introduction<br/>129	(1)<br/>Hierarchies of structure<br/>129	(2)<br/>Chain-folded crystals<br/>131	(5)<br/>Supramolecular self-assembly in soft condensed matter<br/>136	(23)<br/>Introduction<br/>136	(1)<br/>Self-assembled phases in solutions of amphiphilic molecules<br/>136	(15)<br/>Why oil and water do not mix<br/>136	(1)<br/>Aggregation and phase separation<br/>137	(2)<br/>The aggregation of amphiphilic molecules<br/>139	(3)<br/>Spherical micelles and the CMC<br/>142	(1)<br/>Cylindrical micelles<br/>142	(2)<br/>Bilayers and vesicles<br/>144	(1)<br/>The elasticity and fluctuations of membranes<br/>145	(2)<br/>The phase behaviour of concentrated amphiphile solutions<br/>147	(3)<br/>Complex phases in surfactant solutions and microemulsions<br/>150	(1)<br/>Self-assembly in polymers<br/>151	(8)<br/>Phase separation in polymer mixtures and the polymer/polymer interface<br/>152	(3)<br/>Microphase separation in copolymers<br/>155	(1)<br/>Block copolymer phase diagrams<br/>156	(3)<br/>Soft matter in nature<br/>159	(19)<br/>Introduction<br/>159	(1)<br/>The components and structures of life<br/>160	(1)<br/>Nucleic acids<br/>161	(4)<br/>Proteins<br/>165	(8)<br/>Primary, secondary, and tertiary structure of proteins<br/>165	(2)<br/>Protein folding<br/>167	(3)<br/>Interactions between proteins: misfolding, aggregation, and crystallisation<br/>170	(2)<br/>Protein misfolding, gelation, and amyloidogenesis<br/>172	(1)<br/>Polysaccharides<br/>173	(1)<br/>Membranes<br/>174	(4)<br/>A Some results from statistical mechanics		178	(4)<br/>Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics<br/>178	(1)<br/>Energy, entropy, and temperature<br/>179	(1)<br/>Free energy and the Gibbs function<br/>180	(1)<br/>The chemical potential<br/>181	(1)<br/>B The distribution function of an ideal random walk		182	(3)<br/>Direct enumeration of the statistical weight<br/>182	(1)<br/>Random walks and the diffusion equation<br/>183	(2)<br/>C Answers to selected problems		185	(1)<br/>C Answers to selected problems		185	(4)<br/>Chapter 2<br/>185	(1)<br/>Chapter 3<br/>185	(1)<br/>Chapter 4<br/>186	(1)<br/>Chapter 5<br/>186	(1)<br/>Chapter 6<br/>187	(1)<br/>Chapter 7<br/>187	(1)<br/>Chapter 8<br/>187	(1)<br/>Chapter 9<br/>187	(1)<br/>Chapter 10<br/>188	(1)<br/>Bibliography		189	(4)<br/>Index		193	<br/> 
<br/><br/> Many materials are neither simple liquids nor crystalline solids of the type studied in other branches of solid state physics, and instead are conveniently classified as 'soft condensed matter'. Examples include glues, paints, soaps, polymer melts and most materials of biological origin. This book offers a coherent and clear introduction to the properties and behaviour of soft matter. It begins with a treatment of the general underlying principles: the relation of the structure and dynamics of solids and liquids to intermolecular forces, the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions, and the principles of self-assembly. Then the specific properties of colloids, polymers, liquid crystals and self-assembling amphiphilic systems are treated within this framework. A concluding chapter illustrates how principles of soft matter physics can be used to understand properties of biological systems 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198505891 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.413  / JON