rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction
  name:
    name part: Kleman, Maurice.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lavrentovich, Oleg D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 637 p. 219 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Introductions to solid state physics have, ever since the initial book by F. Seitz in 1940, concentrated on simple crystals, with few atoms per cell, bonded together by strong ionic, covalent, or metallic bonds. References to weaker bonds, such as van der Waals forces in rare gases, or to geometric or chemical disorder (e.g., alloys or glasses) have been limited. The physical understanding of this ?eld started well before Seitz’s book and led to a number of Nobel prizes after the last war. Applications cover classical metallurgy, el- tronics, geology and building materials, as well as electrical and ionic transport, chemical reactivity, ferroelectricity and magnetism. But in parallel with this general and well publicized trend, and sometimes earlier as far as physical concepts were concerned, an exploration and increasingly systematic study of softer matter has developed through the twentieth century. More often in the hands of physical chemists and crystallographers than those of pure physicists, the ?eld had for a long time a reputation of complexity. If progress in polymers was steady but slow, interest in liquid crystals had lain dormant for forty years, after a bright start lasting through 1925, to be revived in the late 1960s based on their possible use in imaging techniques. The optoelectronic properties of the ?eld in general are even more recent.
  table of contents: Condensed Matter: General Characteristics, the Chemical Bond, and Particle Interactions -- Atomic and Molecular Arrangements -- The Order Parameter: Amplitude and Phase -- Phase Transitions -- Elasticity of Mesomorphic Phases -- Dynamics of Isotropic and Anisotropic Fluids -- Fractals and Growth Phenomena -- Dislocations in Solids. Plastic Relaxation -- Dislocations in Smectic and Columnar Phases -- Curvature Defects in Smectics and Columnar Phases -- Disclinations and Topological Point Defects. Fluid Relaxation. -- Topological Theory of Defects -- Surface Phenomena -- Stability of Colloidal Systems -- Polymers: Structural Properties.
  note: edited by Maurice Kleman, Oleg D. Lavrentovich.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Polymers
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Solid state physics
  subject:
    topic: Surfaces (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Interfaces (Physical sciences)
  subject:
    topic: Thin films
  subject:
    topic: Materials science
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Solid State Physics
  subject:
    topic: Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films
  subject:
    topic: Polymer Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  subject:
    topic: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
  classification: QC176-176.9
  classification: 530.41
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Partially Ordered Systems
  identifier: 9780387217598
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97416
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204164405.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-21759-8