The Oxford Handbook of Soft Condensed Matter

by Eugene M. Terentjev (Editor), David A. Weitz (Editor)

Overview

Soft condensed matter is a relatively new topic. Condensed matter has typically referred to more traditional liquids, which have a long history of study, or to solids, which have focused more commonly on hard materials, driven in large measure by the importance of structural materials or the metals and semiconductors which drove the rapid evolution of microelectronics. It is only relatively recently, over the past 20 to 30 years, that soft condensed matter has matured into its own identifiable field. However, the field is an amalgam of many subfields, and many of these have themselves much longer histories. This handbook serves as an overview of many of these topics. Because of the great breadth, it is impossible to include them all; nevertheless, the key subjects of soft condensed matter are represented here. Together, they form both an introduction and an overview of the field. Each topic, and its representing Chapter, could have been a full size book - in fact, there are a number of such books on many of the topics covered in the handbook. Our aim here was to give a current snapshot of the field, identify the key principles at play and the most prominent (and promising) ways of its further development, provide essential references for anyone to follow the subject, but not necessarily go into a lot of detail on each topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198812166
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/25/2018
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Eugene M. Terentjev, Professor of Polymer Physics, University of Cambridge,David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University

Eugene M. Terentjev is Professor of Polymer Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK.

David A. Weitz is Professor of Physics & Applied Physics at Harvard University, Director of the Harvard Materials Research Science & Engineering Center, and Co-Director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Colloidal Suspensions, Wilson C. K. Poon2. Surfactants, Dominique Langevin3. Liquid Crystals, Oleg D. Lavrentovich4. Foams, Denis Weaire and Stefan Hutzler5. Granular Systems, Raphael Blumenfeld, Sam F. Edwards and Stephen M. Walley6. Dynamics of Entangled Polymers, Ronald G. Larson and Zuowei Wang7. Block Copolymers, Lee M. Trask, Nacu Hernandez and Eric W. Cochran8. Elastomers and Rubberlike Elasticity, James E. Mark and Burak Erman9. Polyelectrolyte Solutions and Gels, Andrey V. Dobrynin10. Fluid Transport in Gels, Masao Doi11. Extracellular Matrix, Astrid van der Horst and Gijs J. L. Wuite12. Cell Cytoskeleton, Matthieu Piel and Raphael Voituriez13. Interfaces and Membranes, Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta