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The Oxford Handbook of ­Soft Condensed Matter
Oxford Handbooks
By Eugene M. Terentjev (Edited by), David A. Weitz (Edited by)

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United Kingdom, 25 January 2018

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.

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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.

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9780198812166
ISBN
0198812167
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Over 300 b/w illustrations
Dimensions
24.4 x 18.8 x 3.3 centimeters (1.31 kg)

Table of Contents

1: Wilson C. K. Poon: Colloidal Suspensions
2: Dominique Langevin: Surfactants
3: Oleg D. Lavrentovich: Liquid Crystals
4: Denis Weaire and Stefan Hutzler: Foams
5: Raphael Blumenfeld, Sam F. Edwards and Stephen M. Walley: Granular Systems
6: Ronald G. Larson and Zuowei Wang: Dynamics of Entangled Polymers
7: Lee M. Trask, Nacú Hernandez and Eric W. Cochran: Block Copolymers
8: James E. Mark and Burak Erman: Elastomers and Rubberlike Elasticity
9: Andrey V. Dobrynin: Polyelectrolyte Solutions and Gels
10: Masao Doi: Fluid Transport in Gels
11: Astrid van der Horst and Gijs J. L. Wuite: Extracellular Matrix
12: Matthieu Piel and Raphael Voituriez: Cell Cytoskeleton
13: Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta: Interfaces and Membranes

About the Author

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.

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