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Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Tormod Riste

    1. Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

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  2. David Sherrington

    1. Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, UK

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 211)

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. States and Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter: An Introduction to the Interactions

    • P. Pincus
    Pages 1-21

  3. Qualitative Aspects of Condensation, Ordering and Aggregation

    • A. T. Skjeltorp, G. Helgesen
    Pages 23-43

  4. Gravity’s Rainbow - Structure of a 2D Crystal Grown in a Strong Gravitational Field

    • Piotr PieraÅ„ski
    Pages 45-48

  5. Structures and Phase Transitions in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

    • Tormod Riste
    Pages 49-52

  6. Multicriticality in Hexatic Liquid Crystals

    • Amnon Aharony
    Pages 53-65

  7. Molecular Motions of Hydrocarbon Chains (Decylammonium, n-Nonadecane) in Their Dynamically Disordered Phases: An Incoherent Neutron Scattering Study

    • F. Guillaume, C. Sourisseau, A. J. Dianoux
    Pages 67-70

  8. Anchoring Transitions at Crystal-Nematic Interfaces

    • P. Pieranski, B. Jérôme
    Pages 71-85

  9. Spectrum of the Propagative Modes Near the Smectic-A to Hexatic-B or Crystal-B Phase Transition

    • Harald Pleiner
    Pages 87-90

  10. Optical Activity in the Isotropic and Blue Phases of a Chiral Liquid Crystal

    • F. Vanweert, W. Van Dael
    Pages 91-94

  11. Lyotropic Liquid Crystals, Structures and Phase Transitions

    • Jean Charvolin
    Pages 95-111

  12. X-Ray Reflectivity and Diffraction Studies of Liquid Surfaces and Surfactant Monolayers

    • Jens Als-Nielsen, Kristian Kjær
    Pages 113-138

  13. Marangoni Effect, Instabilities and Waves at Interfaces

    • M. G. Velarde, X.-L. Chu
    Pages 139-143

  14. The Phases and Phase Transitions of Lipid Monolayers

    • H. Möhwald
    Pages 145-159

  15. Wetting of Rough Solid Surfaces by Liquids

    • David Andelman, Jean-Francois Joanny, Mark O. Robbins
    Pages 161-164

  16. Crystalline and Liquid Crystalline Order in Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions: An Overview

    • H. N. W. Lekkerkerker
    Pages 165-177

  17. Random Surfactant Assemblies and Microemulsions

    • M. E. Cates
    Pages 179-193

  18. Observations of Sphere to Rod Transition in a Three-Component Microemulsion

    • J. Samseth, S.-H. Chen, J. D. Litster, J. S. Huang
    Pages 195-201

  19. Field-Induced Percolation in Microemulsions

    • Marc Aertsens, Jan Naudts
    Pages 203-209

  20. New Source of Corrections to Scaling for Micellar Solution Critical Behavior

    • G. Martínez-Mekler, G. F. Al-Noaimi, A. Robledo
    Pages 211-215
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About this book

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Geilo, Norway, between 4 - 14 April 1989. This Institute was the tenth in a series held at Geilo on the subject of phase transitions. It was the first to be concerned with the growing area of soft condensed matter, which is neither ordinary solids nor ordinary liquids, but somewhere in between. The Institute brought together many lecturers, students and active researchers in the field from a wide range of NATO and some non-NATO countries, with financial support principally from the NATO Scientific Affairs Division but also from Institutt for energiteknikk, the Nor­ wegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF), The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics (NORDITA), the Norwegian Physical Society and VISTA, a reserach cooperation between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s (STATOIL). The organizing committee would like to thank all these contributors for their help in promoting an exciting and rewarding meeting, and in doing so are confident that they echo the appreciation also of all the participants. 50ft condensed matter is characterized by weak interactions between polyatomic constituents, by important·thermal fluctuations effects, by mechanical softness and by a rich range of behaviours. The main emphasis at this Institute was on the fundamental collective physics, but prepar­ ation techniques and industrial applications were also considered.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

    Tormod Riste

  • Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, UK

    David Sherrington

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