Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology /
Soft condensed matter physics, which emerged as a distinct branch of physics in the 1990s, studies complex fluids: liquids in which structures with length scale between the molecular and the macroscopic exist. Polymers, liquid crystals, surfactant solutions, and colloids fall into this category. Phy...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2006
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| Series: | Scottish graduate series
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| Summary: | Soft condensed matter physics, which emerged as a distinct branch of physics in the 1990s, studies complex fluids: liquids in which structures with length scale between the molecular and the macroscopic exist. Polymers, liquid crystals, surfactant solutions, and colloids fall into this category. Physicists deal with properties of soft matter systems that are generic and largely independent of chemical details. They are especially fascinated by the way soft matter systems can harness Brownian motion to self-assemble into higher-order structures |
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| Item Description: | "The chapters in this book originated as lectures in the NATO Advanced Science Institute (ASI) and Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (SUSSP) 59 entitled Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology held in Edinburgh from 29 March to 8 April 2004"--Preface |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 142000333X 9781420003338 |