Introduction to Soft Matter: Polymers, Colloids, Amphiphiles and Liquid Crystals

By Ian W. Hamley

Book Overview

Provides an introduction to this exciting subject with chapters covering natural and synthetic polymers, colloids, surfactants, and liquid crystals, highlighting the many and varied applications of these materials. * The only introductory book on this subject * Cutting-edge introduction to a new and emerging subject area * An interdisciplinary approach suitable of chemistry, materials science, physics, and biochemistry courses * Copious end-of-chapter problems

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471899526
• ISBN13: 9780471899525
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"