Soft Interfaces - The 1994 Dirac Memorial Lecture

Klappentext An impressionistic tour of the physics of soft interfaces by Nobel Laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes. Zusammenfassung An impressionistic tour of the physics of soft interfaces by Nobel Laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes. Full of insight and interesting asides! it not only provides an accessible introduction to this topic! but also lays down many markers and signposts for interesting new research possibilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Sir Sam Edwards; 1. Geography and explorations; 2. Mobile borders: the dynamics of wetting (or dewetting); 3. Decorated borders: slippage between a solid and a polymer melt; 4. Principles of adhesion; 5. Polymer/polymer welding; 6. Conclusions; Remarks; Appendix: Drag on a tethered chain moving in a polymer melt; Index.

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• Authors: P. G. De Gennes, Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Gennes Pierre Gilles de, Gennes Pierre Gilles De
• Assisted by: Sam Edwards (Introduction)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521020350
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02035-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Surface chemistry and adsorption