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The Oxford Handbook of Soft Condensed Matter

edited by Eugene M. Terentjev & David A. Weitz

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
May 2015
Category
Physics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780198812166
    Publish Date
    Feb 2018
    List Price
    $60.50
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780199667925
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $252.00

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Soft condensed matter is a relatively new topic. Condensed matter has typically referred to more traditional liquids, which have a long history of study, or to solids, which have focused more commonly on hard materials, driven in large measure by the importance of structural materials or the metals and semiconductors which drove the rapid evolution of microelectronics. It is only relatively recently, over the past 20 to 30 years, that soft condensed matter has matured into its own identifiable field. However, the field is an amalgam of many subfields, and many of these have themselves much longer histories.

This handbook serves as an overview of many of these topics. Because of the great breadth, it is impossible to include them all; nevertheless, the key subjects of soft condensed matter are represented here. Together, they form both an introduction and an overview of the field. Each topic, and its representing Chapter, could have been a full size book - in fact, there are a number of such books on many of the topics covered in the handbook. Our aim here was to give a current snapshot of the field, identify the key principles at play and the most prominent (and promising) ways of its further development, provide essential references for anyone to follow the subject, but not necessarily go into a lot of detail on each topic.

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Contributor Notes

Eugene M. Terentjev is Professor of Polymer Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK. David A. Weitz is Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, Director of the Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and Co-Director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA.

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