Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter

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 Pierański

   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

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.

• NMR
• Phase Transition
• Phase Transitions
• X-Ray
• liquid crystals
• optical activity
• polymers

• Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

  Tormod Riste

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

  David Sherrington

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