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Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial predictive power. These liquids expand our conception of what condensed matter can do. Such structured-fluid phenomena dominate the physical environment within living cells. This book teaches how to think of these fluids from a unified point of view, showing the far-reaching effects of thermal fluctuations in producing forces and motions. Keeping mathematics to a minimum, the book seeks the simplest explanations that account for the distinctive scaling properties of these fluids. An example is the growth of viscosity of a polymer solution as the cube of the molecular weight of the constituent polymers. Another is the hydrodynamic radius of a colloidal aggregate, which remains comparable to its geometrical radius even though the density of particles in the aggregate becomes arbitrarily small. The book aims for a simplicity, unity and depth not found in previous treatments. The text is supplemented by numerous figures, tables and problems to aid the student.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Physics Materials / States of matter

• Full title: Structured Fluids
• Subtitle: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants
• Author: Thomas A. Witten
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9780198526889
• ISBN: 0198526881
• ID: 04527290
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 654 g
• Dimensions: 253 × 199 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2004

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