Soft Matter The stuff that dreams are made of

Soft Matter The stuff that dreams are made of / by Roberto Piazza.

‘Soft matter may, as Roberto Piazza puts it, be the stuff of dreams, but it is also the stuff of life. That is what makes this book so engaging – because it shows the ingenuity that both nature and humankind have invested in the bendy, stretchy, fragile, tough and adaptable substances we find all ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piazza, Roberto (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Copernicus, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Amorphous substances.
Complex fluids.
Popular works.
Materials—Surfaces.
Thin films.
Polymers  .
Biophysics.
Biological physics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the English edition
  • 1 Overture: a special day
  • 2 A life in suspense
  • 3 Freedom in chains
  • 4 Double-faced Janus Molecules
  • 5 Nanoarchitecture
  • 6 Dreamtime
  • Weird words: soft matter from A to Z
  • Index of common things (or almost so).

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