Soft Matter: A Very Short Introduction

by Tom McLeish

Book Overview

Soft matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a rich interdisciplinary field over the last 30 years. Drawing on physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering, soft matter links fundamental scientific ideas to everyday phenomena. One such example is 'polymers', encountered in plastic materials and melted cheese, which illustrate how 'sliminess' emerges from the flow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198807139
• ISBN13: 9780198807131
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.8"