Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Soft Condensed Matter: Configurations, Dynamics and Functionality

  • Book
  • © 2000

Overview

Editors:
  1. A. T. Skjeltorp

    1. Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway
      Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. S. F. Edwards

    1. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 552)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. What Is Soft Condensed Matter ?

    • Etienne Guyon
    Pages 1-14

  3. A Cocktail of Soft Condensed Matter

    • Joel Stavans
    Pages 15-36

  4. Materials-Driven Science: From High Tc to Complex Adaptive Matter

    • Jörg Schmalian, David Pines, Branko Stojkovic
    Pages 37-70

  5. Complex Cooperative Behaviour in Frustrated Systems

    • David Sherrington
    Pages 71-82

  6. Linking the Messenger to the Protein, A Key to in Vitro Evolution

    • Albert Libchaber, Shumo Liu
    Pages 83-87

  7. A Model for the Thermodynamics of Proteins

    • Alex Hansen, Mogens H. Jensen, Kim Sneppen, Giovanni Zocchi
    Pages 89-99

  8. Attachment and Spreading of Mammalian Cells in Vitro

    • Ivar Giaever, Charles R. Keese
    Pages 101-109

  9. ‘Sausage-String’ Patterns in Blood Vessels at High Blood Pressures

    • P. Alstrøm, R. Mikkelsen, F. Gustafsson, N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou
    Pages 111-126

  10. Equations of Granular Materials: Deposition Theory

    • S. F. Edwards
    Pages 127-134

  11. Equations of Granular Materials: Transmission of Stress

    • S. F. Edwards, D. V. Grinev
    Pages 135-144

  12. Equations of Granular Materials: Compactivity and Compaction

    • S. F. Edwards, D. V. Grinev
    Pages 145-156

  13. Modeling Granular Flows

    • E G. Flekkøy, S. Mcnamara, K. J. MÃ¥løy
    Pages 157-184

  14. Crystalline Architectures at the Air-Liquid Interface: From Nucleation to Engineering

    • Ivan Kuzmenko, Hanna Rapaport, Kristian Kjaer, Jens Als-Nielsen, Isabelle Weissbuch, Meir Lahav et al.
    Pages 185-217

  15. X-Ray and Neutron Scattering Studies of Complex Confined Fluids

    • Sunil K. Sinha
    Pages 219-245

  16. Speculations and Calculations in the Physics of Foams

    • D. Weaire, G. Bradley, R. Phelan
    Pages 247-268

  17. Complex Physical Phenomena in Clays

    • Jon-Otto Fossum
    Pages 269-279

  18. Complex Particle Dynamics Described by Braid Statistics

    • Arne T. Skjeltorp, Sigmund Clausen, Geir Helgesen
    Pages 281-291

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 293-295
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study In­ stitute held at Geilo, Norway, April 6 -16 1999. The ASI was the fifteenth in a series held biannually on topics related to cooperative phenomena and phase transitions, in this case applied to soft condensed matter and its configurations, dynamics and functionality. It addressed the current experimental and theoretical knowledge of the physical properties of soft condensed matter such as polymers, gels, complex fluids, colloids, granular materials and biomaterials. The main purpose of the lectures was to obtain basic understanding of important aspects in relating molecular configurations and dynamics to macroscopic properties and biological functionality. To our knowledge, the term Soft Condensed Matter was actually coined and used for the first time in 1989 at Geilo and some selected topics of soft matter were also given at Geilo in 1991, 1993 and 1995. A return to this subject 10 years after its instigation thus allowed a fresh look and a possibility for defining new directions for research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

    A. T. Skjeltorp

  • Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway

    A. T. Skjeltorp

  • Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    S. F. Edwards

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation