Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery

by Jacques Badoz, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Jacques Bodoz

Book Overview

Over the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the behavior of such materials as liquid crystals, emulsions and colloids, polymers, and complex molecules. These materials, called "soft matter" ("mati re fragile" in French), have neither the rigid structure and crystalline symmetry of a solid nor the uniformity and disorder of a fluid or a gas. They have unusual and fascinating properties: some change their viscosity at our beck and call;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461275288
• ISBN13: 9781461275282
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"