Soft Matter The stuff that dreams are made of /

• Main Author: Piazza, Roberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Physics.; Polymers.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Popular works.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Popular Science, general.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Polymer Sciences.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

‘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...

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).