Physics of Finely Divided Matter: Proceedings of the Winter School, Les Houches, France, March 25-April 5, 1985

The Second Winter School on the "~hysics of Finely Divided Matter" was held at the Centre de Physique des Houches from 25 March to 5 April 1985. This meeting brought together experts from the areas of gels and porous media. People with different backgrounds — chemists, physicists — from university as well as industrial laboratories, had the opportunity to compare their most recent experimental and theoreti­ cal results. Although the experimental situations and techniques may seem at first s...