Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids
Subtitle: New Aspects of the Physics-Chemistry Interface
By: edited by Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki
Contributors: Kawasaki, Kyozi
Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics -- 52; Springer proceedings in physics -- 52.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783642760105; 9783642760082
Subjects: Biochemistry; Polymers; Crystallography; Physics; Thermodynamics
Other titles: Proceedings of the 4th Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, Nishinomiya City, Japan, October 26-27, 1989
Description: The study of complex fluids is a vigorously evolving field of condensed matter physics with a highly interdisciplinary nature. Because this area is diverse and still in its infancy, the aim of the symposium was to clarify its definition by highlighting various problems. Experimental contributions to this volume reveal intriguing dynamical phenomena in polymers, liquid crys- tals, gels, colloids, and surfactant systems. These complex fluids are then treated in terms of defects, mesoscopic ordering, patterns, nonlinear response, and random interfaces, which are all of importance in current statistical physics.
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