Fragile Objects : Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery /

Over the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the behavior of such materials as liquid crystals, emulsions and colloids, polymers, and complex molecules. These materials, called "soft matter" ("matière fragile" in French), have neither the rigid structure and cryst...

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Main Author:	Gennes, Pierre-Gilles
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Badoz, J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1996.
Subjects:	Physics. Physical organic chemistry. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book