Overview
- Presents basic concepts needed for applications of soft-matter science
- Reviews and compares experimental techniques on a common and consistent basis
- Elucidates principles and analogies common to diverse application fields
- Examines complex methodologies that have been broken down for those with modest mathematical abilities
- Includes footnotes, references, a glossary, a subject index, several subheadings, and step by step derivations.
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About this book
Practical applications of soft-matter dynamics are of vital importance in material science, chemical engineering, biophysics and biotechnology, food processing, plastic industry, micro- and nano-system technology, and other technologies based on non-crystalline and non-glassy materials.
Principles of Soft-Matter Dynamics. Basic Theories, Non-invasive Methods, Mesoscopic Aspects covers fundamental dynamic phenomena such as diffusion, relaxation, fluid dynamics, normal modes, order fluctuations, adsorption and wetting processes. It also elucidates the applications of the principles and of the methods referring to polymers, liquid crystals and other mesophases, membranes, amphiphilic systems, networks, and porous media including multiphase and multi-component materials, colloids, fine-particles, and emulsions. The book presents all formalisms, examines the basic concepts needed for applications of soft-matter science, and reviews non-invasive experimental techniques such as the multi-faceted realm of NMR methods, neutron and light quasi-elastic scattering, mechanical relaxation and dielectric broadband spectroscopy which are treated and compared on a common and consistent foundation. The standard concepts of dynamics in fluids, polymers, liquid crystals, colloids and adsorbates are comprehensively derived in a step-by-step manner. Principles and analogies common to diverse application fields are elucidated and theoretical and experimental aspects are supplemented by computational-physics considerations.
Principles of Soft-Matter Dynamics. Basic Theories, Non-invasive Methods, Mesoscopic Aspects appeals to graduate and PhD students, post-docs, researchers, and industrial scientists alike.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Soft-Matter Dynamics
Book Subtitle: Basic Theories, Non-invasive Methods, Mesoscopic Aspects
Authors: Rainer Kimmich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5536-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5535-2Published: 29 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9934-9Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5536-9Published: 30 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 656
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Condensed Matter Physics, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films