Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Membranes and Surfactant Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Adhesion and Roughness of Biological Model Membranes

      • W. Helfrich, B. Klösgen

      Pages 2-18

   3. The Sponge State: A Striking Isotropic Liquid Phase

      • D. Roux, M. E. Cates

      Pages 19-33

   4. Pattern Formation Processes in Binary Mixtures with Surfactants

      • T. Kawakatsu, K. Kawasaki

      Pages 34-35

   5. Hydrodynamic Interprotein Interaction in a Biomembrane

      • S. Komura, T. Izuyama

      Pages 36-37

   6. Ordering Process Below the Pre-transition Temperature in Multilamellar Lipid Solutions

      • S. Ueno, T. Takeda, S. Komura, Y. Toyoshima

      Pages 38-39

   7. Anisotropic Dynamics in an Oriented Lipid Multibilayer Revealed by Vector EPR Spectroscopy

      • Y. Shimoyama, H. Watari

      Pages 40-42

3. Gels

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Swelling of Gels and Diffusion of Molecules

      • Yong Li, T. Tanaka

      Pages 44-54

   3. Phase Transition of D.N.A. Gel and Reentrant Phenomena in Acrylamide and Gelatin Gels

      • E. Takushi, T. Tanaka

      Pages 55-56

   4. Spongelike Domain Structure in a Two-Dimensional Model Gel Undergoing the Volume Phase Transition

      • K. Sekimoto, N. Suematsu, K. Kawasaki

      Pages 57-58

   5. Ordered Structures Resulting from Photo-cross-links of Binary Polymer Blends Undergoing Phase Separation

      • Q. Tran-Cong, T. Nagaki, M. Imura, O. Yano, T. Soen

      Pages 59-60

4. Liquid Crystals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Ordered Phases in Colloidal Suspensions of Tobacco Mosaic Virus

      • R. B. Meyer

      Pages 62-73

   3. A Model of Electro-rheological Fluid

      • J. Takimoto

      Pages 74-75

   4. The Dynamical Structure Factor of Rodlike Polymers in the Isotropic Phase

      • T. Maeda

      Pages 76-77

   5. Pattern Formation in the Spatially Modulated Electrohydrodynamic Convection of Liquid Crystals

      • A. Ogawa, K. Kawasaki, W. Zimmermann, T. Kawakatsu

      Pages 78-79

   6. Theory of Shear Thinning in Liquid Crystal Polymers, for the Lower Shear Rate Regime

      • Y. Yamazaki, A. Holz, S. F. Edwards, H. Fujishiro

      Pages 80-81

   7. Hierarchical Discommensuration Pattern and Phase Transitions in the Electrohydrodynamic Convection of Liquid Crystals with a Periodic Substrate Potential

      • H. Mitani

      Pages 82-84

The fourth Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, devoted to the topic of dynamics and patterns in complex fluids, was held on October 26 and 27, 1989, in Nishinomiya City, Japan, where ten invited speakers gave their lectures. A one-day meeting, comprising short talks and poster sessions, was then held on the same topic on October 28 at the Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University. The present volume contains the 10 invited papers and 38 contributed papers presented at these two meetings. The symposium was sponsored by Nishinomiya City, where Prof. Hideki Yukawa once lived and where he wrote the celebrated paper describing the work that was later honored by a Nobel prize. The topic of the fourth symposium was chosen from one of the most vigorously evolving and highly interdisciplinary fields in condensed matter physics. The field of complex fluids is very diverse and still in its infancy and, as a result, the definition of a complex fluid varies greatly from one researcher to the next. One of the objectives of the symposium was to clarify its definition by explicitly posing a number of potentially rich problems waiting to be explored. Indeed, experimentalists are disclosing a variety of intriguing dynamical phenomena in complex systems such as polymers, liquid crystals, gels, colloids, and surfactant systems. We, the organizers, hope that the symposium will contribute to the increasing importance of the field in the coming years.

• Complex fluids
• Mesocsopic ordering
• Pattern formation
• Rheology and statistical physics
• statistical physics

• Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan

  Akira Onuki

• Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan

  Kyozi Kawasaki

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