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foams, gels, liquid crystals, and other miracles
1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) : illustrations.
Matter, are you there? -- Sensitive matter, divine matter? -- Let us praise sensitivity, a unifying virtue -- Conciliation : the art of resolving conflicts: -- 1. Peacemaking among enemies-- easy when a mediator is involved -- 2. Dissolving fat in water : a question of organization -- 3. Don't mix, associate! -- Revelation : the little additive that changes everything: -- 4. Rubber : a story nearly cut short -- 5. The firefighter's jet stream : reach for the sky -- 6. The glamorous affair of gas and liquid -- 7. Down with foam! -- 8. Breathing : an unseen triumph -- 9. Familiarity and distance : colloids -- 10. Sensitive cooking; -- Adaptation : responding to the environment: -- 11. A cell, though not a prison -- 12. Putting drug delivery on controlled release -- 13. Perpetual sensitivity : granular matter -- 14. Liquefaction of the "blood" of St. Januarius.
Michel Mitov ; translated by Giselle Weiss.
Includes bibliographical references and index.