Soft Condensed Matter
This note covers the following
topics: introduction to soft materials, Surfactants,The van der Waals potential,
Forces arising from fluctuations, Introduction to polymers, freely-jointed-chain
calculation, worm-like chain model, The Langevin equation, Diffusion equation,
The Dynamic light scattering (DLS), Liquid interfaces, The shape of a liquid
interface and capillary forces, Lipid membranes, The Flory Huggins theory,
Colloidal gels and the fractal dimension, Hydrodynamics.
Author(s): IA.D. Dinsmore
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