Structured fluids : polymers, culloids, surfactants /
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| Author / Creator: | Witten, T. (Thomas A.) |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11227658 |
| Summary: | Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial predictive power. These liquids expand our conception of what condensed matter can do. Such structured-fluid phenomena dominate the physical environment within living cells. This book teaches how to think of these fluids from a unified point of view, showing the far-reaching effects of thermal fluctuations in producing forces and motions. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, the book seeks the simplest explanations that account for the distinctive scaling properties of these fluids. An example is the growth of viscosity of a polymer solution as the cube of the molecular weight of the constituent polymers. Another is the hydrodynamic radius of a colloidal aggregate, which remains comparable to its geometrical radius even though the density of particles in the aggregate becomes arbitrarily small. The book aims for a simplicity, unity and depth not found in previous treatments. The text is supplemented by numerous figures, tables and problems to aid the student. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2004. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191576928 0191576921 9781523121298 1523121297 9780199583829 019958382X |