Fragile Objects Soft Matter, Hard Science and the Thrill of Discovery

Name: Fragile Objects Soft Matter, Hard Science and the Thrill of Discovery
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ISBN: 9780387947747

ISBN-10: 0387947744

ISBN-13: 9780387947747

Edition: 1996

Authors: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Jacques Bodoz

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Over the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the behavior of such materials as liquid crystals, emulsions and colloids, polymers, and complex molecules. These materials, called "soft matter" ("matire fragile" in French), have neither the rigid structure and crystalline symmetry of a solid nor the uniformity and disorder of a fluid or a gas. They have unusual and fascinating properties: some change their viscosity at our beck and call; others form layers of two-dimensional liquids; some are polarized, their molecules all oriented in the same direction and turning in unison at our command; others make up the foams, bubbles, waxes, gums, and many other items we take for granted…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 8/29/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 189
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface: School Stories


Acknowledgments


The Indian boot and Mr. Goodyear


The noodle soup


The tubeless siphon and the runaway boat


The Egyptian scribe, arabic gum, and Chinese ink


Liquid crystals and the school of fish


On the Surface of things: Wetting and dewetting


Bubbles and foams


Fragile objects


Profession: Research scientist


Discovery


A positive science


The Environment


A pedagogy for the real world


The imperialism of mathematics


A little oxygen


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Epilog


Glossary


Index