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Sensitive matter : foams, gels, liquid crystals, and other miracles /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mitov, Michel
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Soft condensed matter. Colloids. Rheology. Materials. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.