Structured fluids : polymers, colloids, surfactants /

Structured fluids : polymers, colloids, surfactants /

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Author / Creator:Witten, T. (Thomas A.)
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:xiv, 216 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Complex fluids.
Polymer colloids.
Complex fluids.
Polymer colloids.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5136200
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Other authors / contributors:Pincus, P. A.
ISBN:0198526881
Notes:Includes bibliograpical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. A gallery of structured fluids
  • 1.2.1. Self-organization
  • 1.2.2. Rheology
  • 1.2.3. Scaling
  • 1.3. Types of structured fluids
  • 1.3.1. Colloids
  • 1.3.2. Aggregates
  • 1.3.3. Polymers
  • 1.3.4. Surfactant assemblies
  • 1.3.5. Association
  • 1.4. The chapters to follow
  • References
  • 2. Fundamentals
  • 2.1. Statistical physics
  • 2.1.1. Thermal equilibrium
  • 2.1.2. Probability and work
  • 2.1.3. Lattice gas
  • 2.1.4. Approach to equilibrium
  • 2.2. Magnitude of a liquid's response
  • 2.3. Experimental probes of structured fluids
  • 2.3.1. Macroscopic responses
  • 2.3.2. Probes of spatial structure
  • 2.3.3. Probes of atomic environment
  • Solution to Problem 2.1
  • References
  • 3. Polymer molecules
  • 3.1. Types of polymers
  • 3.1.1. Monomers
  • 3.1.2. Architecture
  • 3.1.3. Polymerization
  • 3.2. Random-walk polymer
  • 3.2.1. End-to-end probability
  • 3.3. Interior structure
  • 3.3.1. Scattering
  • 3.4. Self-avoidance and self-interaction
  • 3.4.1. Local and global avoidance
  • 3.4.2. Estimating D
  • 3.4.3. Self-interaction and solvent quality
  • 3.4.4. Universal ratios
  • 3.4.5. Polyelectrolytes
  • Appendix A. Dilation symmetry
  • Appendix B. Polymeric solvents and screening
  • References
  • 4. Polymer solutions
  • 4.1. Dilute solutions
  • 4.2. Semidilute solutions
  • 4.2.1. Structure
  • 4.2.2. Energy
  • 4.2.3. Concentrated solutions and melts
  • 4.3. Motion in a polymer solution
  • 4.3.1. Brownian motion of a sphere
  • 4.3.2. Intrinsic viscosity
  • 4.3.3. Polymer in dilute solution: hydrodynamic opacity
  • 4.3.4. Internal fluctuations
  • 4.3.5. Hydrodynamic screening
  • 4.3.6. Semidilute diffusion
  • 4.3.7. Semidilute self-diffusion without entanglement
  • 4.3.8. Motion with entanglements
  • 4.3.9. Stress relaxation and viscosity
  • 4.4. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Origin of the Oseen tensor
  • Solution to Problem 4.5 (Deriving permeability)
  • References
  • 5. Colloids
  • 5.1. Attractive forces: why colloids are sticky
  • 5.1.1. Induced-dipole interactions
  • 5.1.2. Solid bodies
  • 5.1.3. Perturbation-Attraction Theorem
  • 5.1.4. Depletion forces
  • 5.2. Repulsive forces
  • 5.2.1. Steric stabilization
  • 5.2.2. Electrostatic stabilization
  • 5.3. Organized states
  • 5.3.1. Colloidal crystals
  • 5.3.2. Lyotropic liquid crystals
  • 5.3.3. Fractal aggregates
  • 5.3.4. Anisotropic interactions
  • 5.4. Colloidal motion
  • 5.4.1. Electrophoresis
  • 5.4.2. Soret effect
  • Appendix A. Perturbation attraction in a square-gradient medium
  • Appendix B. Colloidal aggregates
  • References
  • 6. Interfaces
  • 6.1. Probes of an interface
  • 6.2. Simple fluids
  • 6.2.1. Interfacial energy
  • 6.2.2. Contact angle
  • 6.2.3. Wetting dynamics
  • 6.2.4. Surface heterogeneity
  • 6.2.5. Other interfacial flows
  • 6.3. Solutes and interfacial tension
  • 6.3.1. Fluid mixtures
  • 6.4. Polyatomic solutes
  • 6.4.1. Polymer adsorption
  • 6.4.2. Concentration profile
  • 6.4.3. Hard wall
  • 6.4.4. Kinetics of adsorption
  • 6.4.5. Surface interaction
  • 6.4.6. Flow
  • 6.5. Conclusion
  • References
  • 7. Surfactants
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Mixing principles
  • 7.2.1. Positivity
  • 7.2.2. Additivity
  • 7.2.3. Ordering: like dissolves like
  • 7.2.4. Reciprocity
  • 7.2.5. Transitivity
  • 7.2.6. Effect of permanent dipoles: water
  • 7.2.7. Effect of charges: ionic separation
  • 7.3. Surfactant molecules
  • 7.4. Surfactants in solution: micelles
  • 7.4.1. Open aggregation: wormlike micelles
  • 7.4.2. Open aggregation: two-dimensional micelles
  • 7.4.3. Aggregation kinetics
  • 7.5. Micelle interaction
  • 7.5.1. Energy of two-dimensional micelles
  • 7.5.2. Energy to confine a fluctuating membrane
  • 7.6. Mixing immiscible liquids: microemulsions
  • 7.6.1. Interfacial tension
  • 7.6.2. Emulsions and foams
  • 7.7. Amphiphilic polymers
  • 7.7.1. Micelle size
  • 7.7.2. Other copolymers
  • 7.7.3. Polymeric amphiphiles in solution
  • 7.8. Dynamics and rheology
  • 7.8.1. Wormlike entanglement and relaxation
  • 7.8.2. Rheology of lamellar solution
  • 7.8.3. Shear-induced restructuring
  • Appendix. Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
  • References
  • Index
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