Phase Separation in Soft Matter Physics
Subtitle: Micellar Solutions, Microemulsions, Critical Phenomena
By: by Pulat K. Khabibullaev, Abdulla A. Saidov
Contributors: Saidov, Abdulla A.
Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 138; Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 138
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9783642078637; 9783662092781
Subjects: Nanotechnology; Physics
Description: This is the first monograph devoted to investigation of the most complex physical processes - phase transitions, critical phenomena and super-molecular organization - of soft systems, including a wide class of solutions from associated to micellar ones. In the book their thermophysical parameters are determined. Special attention is paid to problems of emergence and stability of the microemulsion state. Modern theoretical understanding is accompanied by experimental results. New methods and models for the description of several soft systems are proposed. The book is intended for scientists, engineers, graduate and doctoral students interested in the problems of the physics of soft matter.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Acoustic spectroscopy of ideal solutions; title: Phase-separating solutions; title: Dynamics of near-critical states; title: Physics of solutions with double critical point; title: Micellization as a phase transition; title: Fluctuation mechanism of forced spinodal decomposition; title: Weak stirring and absolute instability phenomena; title: Microheterophase relaxation state; title: Transition from emulsion to microemulsion.