Mesoscopic Physics of Complex Materials
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Beschreibung
This book is intended to provide a cross-disciplinary study of the physical prop erties of complex fluids, solids, and interfaces as a function of their mesoscopic structures. Because of the disorder and dissipate nature of these structures, em phasis is placed on nonequilibrium phenomena. These phenomena are the active research areas of soft condensed matter, and it is impossible to cover them all in one book. Therefore, we have limited the scope by selecting a variety of important current systems that (l) present high values to both science and technology on the basis of my own preference and expertise and (2) have not been put together coherently in the form of a book. We then show the underlying connections and parallels between topics as diverse as critical phenomena in colloidal dynamics, glass state relaxation and deformation, reinforced polymer composites, molecular level mixing in nanocomposites, and microscopic interactions of rough surfaces and interfaces. At the same time, each chapter is designed to be directly accessible to readers, and the need for going through the previous chapters has been kept to the minimum. It is a reasonably short book that is not designed to review all of the recent work that spans many disciplines. Instead, we attempt to establish a general framework for the fundamental understanding and the practical development of new materials that cannot be designed by the trial-and-error methods.
This book is intended to provide a cross-disciplinary study of physical properties of complex fluids, solids and interfaces as a function of mesoscopic structure. The text covers a variety of active research areas, ranging from fractal surfaces, glassy state relaxation and deformation, colloidal dynamics, and polymer composites. It is intended for resarchers and graduate students in condensed matter physics, polymer physics, material science and engineering.
Autor*in
T.S. Chow
Themen in »Mesoscopic Physics of Complex Materials«
dynamics elasticity mechanics polymer surfaces viscoelasticity