Soft Condensed Matter 1st edition by Richard Jones ISBN 0198505892 9780198505891

Soft Condensed Matter 1st edition by Richard Jones ISBN 0198505892 9780198505891

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ISBN 10: 0198505892
ISBN 13: 9780198505891
Author: Richard Jones 

Probably one of the most fashionable areas in the physical sciences today, Soft Condensed Matter provides an excellent introduction to the topic, and includes colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, and amphiphiles. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of physics, chemistry, materials science and chemical engineering.

Soft Condensed Matter 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction and overview

1.1 What is soft condensed matter?

1.2 Soft matter-an overview

2 Forces, energies, and timescales in condensed matter

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Gases, liquids, and solids

2.2.1 Intermolecular forces

2.2.2 Condensation and freezing

2.3 Viscous, elastic, and viscoelastic behaviour

2.3.1 The response of matter to a shear stress

2.3.2 Understanding the mechanical response of matter at a molecular level

2.4 Liquids and glasses

2.4.1 Practical glass-forming systems

2.4.2 Relaxation time and viscosity in glass forming liquids

2.4.3 The experimental glass transition

2.4.4 Understanding the glass transition

3 Phase transitions

3.1 Phase transitions in soft matter

3.2 Liquid-liquid unmixing-equilibrium phase diagrams

3.2.1 Interfaces between phases and interfacial tension

3.3 Liquid liquid unmixing-kinetics of phase separation

3.3.1 Two mechanisms of phase separation

3.3.2 Spinodal decomposition

3.3.3 Nucleation

3.3.4 Growth in the late stages of phase separation

3.4 The liquid-solid transition-freezing and melting

3.4.1 Kinetics of the liquid-solid transition-heterogeneous nucleation

3.4.2 Kinetics of the liquid-solid transition-heterogeneous nucleation

3.4.3 Solidification-stability of a growing solidification front

4 Colloidal dispersions

4.1 Introduction

4.2 A single colloidal particle in a liquid-Stokes' law and Brownian motion

4.2.1 Stokes' law

4.2.2 Brownian motion and the Einstein equation

4.3 Forces between colloidal particles

4.3.1 lnteratomic forces and interparticle forces

4.3.2 Van der Waals forces

4.3.3 Electrostatic double-layer forces

4.3.4 Stabilising polymers with grafted polymer layers

4.3.5 Depletion interactions

4.4 Stability and phase behaviour of colloids

4.4.1 Crystallisation of hard-sphere colloids

4.4.2 Colloids with longer ranged repulsion

4.4.3 Colloids with weakly attractive interactions

4.4.4 Colloids with strongly attractive interactions

4.5 Flow in concentrated dispersions

5 Polymers

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The variety of polymeric materials

5.2.1 Polymer chemistry

5.2.2 Stereochemistry

5.2.3 Architecture

5.2.4 Copolymers

5.2.5 Physical state

5.3 Random walks and the dimensions of polymer chains

5.3.1 The freely jointed chain and its Gaussian limit

5.3.2 Real polymer chains-short-range correlations

5.3.3 Excluded volume, the theta temperature, and coil-globule transitions

5.3.4 Chain statistics in polymer melts-the Flory theorem

5.3.5 Measuring the size of polymer chains

5.3.6 Polymers at interfaces-adsorbed and grafted chains

5.4 Rubber elasticity

5.5 Viscoelasticity in polymers and the reptation model

5.5.1 Characterising the viscoelastic behaviour of polymers

5.5.2 Linear viscoelasticity and the Boltzmann superposition principle

5.5.3 The temperature dependence of viscoelastic properties: time-temperature superposition

5.5.4 Viscoelasticity: experimental results for monodisperse linear polymer melts

5.5.5 Entanglements

5.5.6 The tube model and the theory of reptation

5.5.7 Modifications to reptation theory

6 Gelation

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Classes of gel

6.2.1 Chemical gels

6.2.2 Physical gels

6.3 The theory of gelation

6.3.1 The percolation model

6.3.2 The classical theory of gelation-the Flory Stockmayer model

6.3.3 Non-classical exponents in the percolation model

6.3.4 The elasticity of gels

7 Molecular order in soft condensed matter-liquid crystallinity

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Introduction to liquid crystal phases

7.3 The nematic/isotropic transition

7.4 Distortions and topological defects in liquid crystals

7.4.1 Generalised rigidity and the elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal

7.4.2 Boundary effects

7.4.3 Disclinations, dislocations, and other topological defects

7.5 The electrical and magnetic properties of liquid crystals

7.6 The Frederiks transition and liquid crystal displays

7.7 Polymer liquid crystals

7.7.1 Rigid polymers

7.7.2 Helix-coil transitions

7.7.3 The isotropic/nematic transition for ideal hard rods

7.7.4 Transitions in real lyotropic systems

7.7.5 Thermotropic liquid crystal phases

8 Molecular order in soft condensed matter-crystallinity in polymers

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Hierarchies of structure

8.3 Chain-folded crystals

9 Supramolecular self-assembly in soft condensed matter

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Self-assembled phases in solutions of amphiphilic molecules

9.2.1 Why oil and water do not mix

9.2.2 Aggregation and phase separation

9.2.3 The aggregation of amphiphilic molecules

9.2.4 Spherical micelles and the CMC

9.2.5 Cylindrical micelles

9.2.6 Bilayers and vesicles

9.2.7 The elasticity and fluctuations of membranes

9.2.8 The phase behaviour of concentrated amphiphile solutions

9.2.9 Complex phases in surfactant solutions and microemulsions

9.3 Self-assembly in polymers

9.3.1 Phase seperation in polymer mixtures and the polymer/polymer interface

9.3.2 Microphase separation in copolymers

9.3.3 Block copolymer phase diagrams

10 Soft matter in nature

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The components and structures of life

10.3 Nucleic acids

10.4 Proteins

10.4.1 Primary, secondary, and tertiary structure of proteins

10.4.2 Protein folding

10.4.3 Interactions between proteins: misfolding, aggregation, and crystallisation

10.4.4 Protein misfolding, gelation, and amyloidogenesis

10.5 Polysaccharides

10.6 Membranes

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