Francoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre Nassoy, Pierre-Henri Puech

eBook, ePUB

Essentials of Soft Matter Science (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Authored by world-leading physicists, this introductory textbook explores the basic principles of polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, wetting, and foams. It is a practical 'toolbox' for readers to acquire basic knowledge in the field and facilitate further reading and advanced courses. Undergraduate students in physics, biology, and the medical sciences will learn the basics of soft matter physics, in addition to scaling approaches in the spirit of the Nobel prize laureate in physics in 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, the inventor of soft matter physics and close collaborator to author Françoise Brochard-Wyart.

Features:

• Accessible and compact approach
• Contains exercises to enhance understanding
• All chapters are followed by a short 1-2 page "insert chapter" which serve as illustrations with concrete examples from everyday life (e.g. the Paris Metro, a zebrafish, a gecko, duck feathers etc.)

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• E-Mail des Verlags für Barrierefreiheitsfragen: [e-mail]
• Navigation über vor-/zurück-Elemente ohne Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Seitennummerierung folgt dem gedruckten Werk
• Mathematische Inhalte in MathML für assistive Technologien
• Text und Medien in logischer Lesereihenfolge angeordnet
• Navigierbarer Index mit direktem Zugriff auf Indexbegriffe
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Françoise Brochard-Wyart is a French theoretical physicist. She was born in 1944 in Saint-Étienne in France. Currently she is a professor of theoretical soft matter physics at the Curie Institute. She studied at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan from 1964 to 1968 and obtained a degree in physics. Following her degree she studied for a PhD in Liquid Crystals under the supervision of Pierre-Gilles De Gennes. She obtained her PhD in 1974. Following her PhD she went on to study the dynamics of polymers at the Collège de France. In 1986 she was made a professor of physical chemistry at Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University. Here she focused her research on phenomena involving mixing and on the physics of interfaces. In 1991 she joined the Curie Institute and began research on biophysics. She is a member of Institut Universitaire de France. She was awarded the Jean Ricard Prize from the French Physical Society in 1998.

Pierre Nassoy is an experimentalist physicist. He was born in 1968 in Thionville in France. Currently, he is a CNRS senior scientist at the Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux. He studied at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI) and obtained an engineering diploma. Then he obtained a PhD in 1996 in Monomolecular Langmuir Films under the supervision of Francis Rondelez. He then did a postdoc in biophysics in Vancouver, Canada (advisor: Evan Evans). He was junior CNRS scientist interested in cell biophysics at the Institut Curie until 2012.

Pierre-Henri Puech is a researcher at LAI Lab, Marseille, France. His research interests centre around soft condensed matter and biophysics; particularly T cell recognition, mechanics, and signalling in addition to toxoplasma mechanics and adhesion and mechanics in cancer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498773966
• Artikelnr.: 57395862