Simple views on condensed matter / / Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

• Autore: Gennes Pierre-Gilles de
• Pubblicazione: River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2003
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (576 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.4/1
• Soggetto topico: Condensed matter; Solid state chemistry
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword to the first edition; Foreword to the expanded edition; Contents; 1 Sur un exemple de propagation dans un milieu desordonne; 2 Effects of double exchange in magnetic crystals; 3 Nuclear magnetic resonance modes in magnetic material I Theory; 4 Onset of superconductivity in decreasing fields; 5 Boundary effects in superconductors; 6 Soluble model for fibrous structures with steric constraints; 7 Conjectures sur l'etat smectique; 8 Dynamics of fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals; 9 Note on the dynamics of prenematic fluids; 10 An analogy between superconductors and smectics A ; 11 Hydrodynamic properties of fluid lamellar phases of lipid water12 Quasi-elastic scattering of neutrons by dilute polymer solutions:; 13 Quasi-elastic scattering by dilute, ideal, polymer solutions:; 14 Minimum number of aminoacids required to build up a specific receptor with a folded polypeptide chain; 15 Reptation of a polymer chain in the presence of fixed obstacles; 16 Coil stretch transition of dilute flexible polymers under ultrahigh velocity gradients; 17 Solutions of flexible polymers Neutron experiments and interpretation; 18 Theoretical methods of polymer statistics ; 19 Ecoulements viscometriques de polymeres enchevetres20 Theory of long range correlations in polymer melts; 21 Tight knots; 22 Viscosity at small scales in polymer melts; 23 Un muscle artificiel semi-rapide; 24 Weak segregation in molten statistical copolymers; 25 Phenomenes aux parois dans un melange binaire critique; 26 Suspensions colloi'dales dans une solution de polymeres; 27 Conformations of polymers attached to an interface; 28 Sur une regie de somme pour des chaines polymeriques semi diluees pres d'une paroi; 29 Microemulsions and the flexibility of oil water interfaces ; 30 Transitions de monocouches a molecules polaires31 Polymers at an interface a simplified view; 32 Shear-dependent slippage at a polymer/soild interface; 33 Slippage of polymer melts on grafted surfaces; 34 Injection threshold for a star polymer inside a nanopore; 35 Injection threshold for a statistically branched polymer inside a nanopore; 36 Mechanics of soft interfaces; 37 Soft adhesives; 38 Transient pores in stretched vesicles role of leak out; 39 Young soap films; 40 On fluid wall slippage; 41 Wetting statics and dynamics; 42 Dynamics of drying and film-thinnings ; 43 Tension superficielle des polymeres fondus44 Etalement d'une goutte stratifiee incompressible; 45 Dynamics of partial wetting; 46 Fracture d'un adhesif faiblement reticule; 47 Polymer polymer welding and sliding; 48 A model for contact angle hysteresis; 49 Dynamics of wetting with nonideal surfaces The single defect problem; 50 Eponges filantes; 51 Shocks in an inertial dewetting process; 52 Dewetting of a water film between a solid and a rubber; 53 Some remarks on coalescence in emulsions or foams; 54 Two remarks on wetting and emulsions; 55 Adhesion induced by mobile binders dynamics ; 56 Sur 1'impossibility de certaines syntheses asymetriques
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is a selection of invaluable papers by P-G de Gennes 1991 Nobel Prize winner in Physics which have had a long-lastingimpact on our understanding of condensed matter. Important ideas onpolymers, liquid crystals and interfaces are described.
• Titolo autorizzato: Simple Views on Condensed Matter
• ISBN: 1-281-87693-3; 9786611876937; 981-256-484-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826894403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in modern condensed matter physics ; ; v. 12.