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| Introduction and overview | |
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| What is soft condensed matter? | |
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| Soft matter--an overview | |
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| Forces, energies, and timescales in condensed matter | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gases, liquids, and solids | |
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| Intermolecular forces | |
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| Condensation and freezing | |
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| Viscous, elastic, and viscoelastic behaviour | |
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| The response of matter to a shear stress | |
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| Understanding the mechanical response of matter at a molecular level | |
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| Liquids and glasses | |
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| Practical glass-forming systems | |
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| Relaxation time and viscosity in glass-forming liquids | |
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| The experimental glass transition | |
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| Understanding the glass transition | |
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| Phase transitions | |
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| Phase transitions in soft matter | |
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| Liquid-liquid unmixing--equilibrium phase diagrams | |
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| Interfaces between phases and interfacial tension | |
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| Liquid-liquid unmixing--kinetics of phase separation | |
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| Two mechanisms of phase separation | |
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| Spinodal decomposition | |
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| Nucleation | |
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| Growth in the late stages of phase separation | |
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| The liquid-solid transition--freezing and melting | |
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| Kinetics of the liquid-solid transition--homogeneous nucleation | |
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| Kinetics of the liquid-solid transition--heterogeneous nucleation | |
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| Solidification--stability of a growing solidification front | |
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| Colloidal dispersions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A single colloidal particle in a liquid--Stokes' law and Brownian motion | |
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| Stokes' law | |
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| Brownian motion and the Einstein equation | |
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| Forces between colloidal particles | |
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| Interatomic forces and interparticle forces | |
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| Van der Waals forces | |
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| Electrostatic double-layer forces | |
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| Stabilising polymers with grafted polymer layers | |
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| Depletion interactions | |
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| Stability and phase behaviour of colloids | |
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| Crystallisation of hard-sphere colloids | |
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| Colloids with longer ranged repulsion | |
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| Colloids with weakly attractive interactions | |
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| Colloids with strongly attractive interactions | |
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| Flow in concentrated dispersions | |
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| Polymers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The variety of polymeric materials | |
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| Polymer chemistry | |
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| Stereochemistry | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Copolymers | |
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| Physical state | |
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| Random walks and the dimensions of polymer chains | |
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| The freely jointed chain and its Gaussian limit | |
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| Real polymer chains--short-range correlations | |
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| Excluded volume, the theta temperature, and coil-globule transitions | |
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| Chain statistics in polymer melts--the Flory theorem | |
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| Measuring the size of polymer chains | |
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| Polymers at interfaces--adsorbed and grafted chains | |
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| Rubber elasticity | |
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| Viscoelasticity in polymers and the reptation model | |
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| Characterising the viscoelastic behaviour of polymers | |
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| Linear viscoelasticity and the Boltzmann superposition principle | |
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| The temperature dependence of viscoelastic properties: time-temperature superposition | |
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| Viscoelasticity: experimental results for monodisperse linear polymer melts | |
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| Entanglements | |
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| The tube model and the theory of reptation | |
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| Modifications to reptation theory | |
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| Gelation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Classes of gel | |
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| Chemical gels | |
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| Physical gels | |
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| The theory of gelation | |
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| The percolation model | |
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| The classical theory of gelation--the Flory-Stockmayer model | |
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| Non-classical exponents in the percolation model | |
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| The elasticity of gels | |
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| Molecular order in soft condensed matter--liquid crystallinity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to liquid crystal phases | |
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| The nematic/isotropic transition | |
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| Distortions and topological defects in liquid crystals | |
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| Generalised rigidity and the elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal | |
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| Boundary effects | |
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| Disclinations, dislocations, and other topological defects | |
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| The electrical and magnetic properties of liquid crystals | |
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| The Frederiks transition and liquid crystal displays | |
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| Polymer liquid crystals | |
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| Rigid polymers | |
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| Helix-coil transitions | |
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| The isotropic/nematic transition for ideal hard rods | |
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| Transitions in real lyotropic systems | |
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| Thermotropic liquid crystal phases | |
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| Molecular order in soft condensed matter--crystallinity in polymers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hierarchies of structure | |
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| Chain-folded crystals | |
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| Supramolecular self-assembly in soft condensed matter | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Self-assembled phases in solutions of amphiphilic molecules | |
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| Why oil and water do not mix | |
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| Aggregation and phase separation | |
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| The aggregation of amphiphilic molecules | |
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| Spherical micelles and the CMC | |
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| Cylindrical micelles | |
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| Bilayers and vesicles | |
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| The elasticity and fluctuations of membranes | |
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| The phase behaviour of concentrated amphiphile solutions | |
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| Complex phases in surfactant solutions and microemulsions | |
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| Self-assembly in polymers | |
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| Phase separation in polymer mixtures and the polymer/polymer interface | |
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| Microphase separation in copolymers | |
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| Block copolymer phase diagrams | |
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| Soft matter in nature | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The components and structures of life | |
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| Nucleic acids | |
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| Proteins | |
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| Primary, secondary, and tertiary structure of proteins | |
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| Protein folding | |
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| Interactions between proteins: misfolding, aggregation, and crystallisation | |
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| Protein misfolding, gelation, and amyloidogenesis | |
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| Polysaccharides | |
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| Membranes | |
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| Some results from statistical mechanics | |
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| Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics | |
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| Energy, entropy, and temperature | |
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| Free energy and the Gibbs function | |
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| The chemical potential | |
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| The distribution function of an ideal random walk | |
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| Direct enumeration of the statistical weight | |
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| Random walks and the diffusion equation | |
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| Answers to selected problems | |
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| Chapter 2 | |
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| Chapter 3 | |
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| Chapter 4 | |
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| Chapter 5 | |
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| Chapter 6 | |
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| Chapter 7 | |
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| Chapter 8 | |
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| Chapter 9 | |
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| Chapter 10 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |