Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants
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About the Book
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.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9780198526889
EAN: 9780198526889
Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2004
Bood Data Readership Text: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Gardner Classification Code: K00
Illustration: Y
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
Number of Items: 01
PrintOnDemand: N
Spine Width: 20 mm
UK Availability: GXC
ISBN-10: 0198526881
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Height: 253 mm
Illustrations: numerous halftones & figures
LCCN: 2004299388
No of Pages: 230
Pagination: 230 pages, numerous halftones & figures
Series Title: English
Star Rating: 0
Width: 199 mm