Soft Order in Physical Systems

By: R. Bruinsma (Editor), Y. Rabin (Editor)

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Considers how physicists apply intuition to problems that appear to defy rigorous analysis, contrary to conventional notions of science, and come up with believable answers. Four review papers on general topics are followed by 23 research reports treating such areas as polymer physics, crystallograp

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Published: 23rd October 2012

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An Historical Perspective (Une Perspective Historique)	p. 1
Focal Conics Domains in Smectics	p. 5
On Polymer Brushes and Blobology: An Introduction	p. 33
The Adhesion Between Elastomers	p. 57
Dynamics of Late Stage Phase Separation in Polymer Blends	p. 73
Swelling and Uniaxial Extension of Polymer Gels as Seen by Small Angle Neutron Scattering	p. 99
Silica-Poly (dimethsiloxane) Mixtures: An NMR Approach to the Investigation of Chain Adsorption Statistics	p. 103
Liquid Crystalline Polymers in Nematic Solvents: Extension and Confinement	p. 107
The Revealing of Heterogeneities by Free Linear Chains in a Network	p. 113
Non-Debye Screening in Polyelectrolyte Solutions	p. 117
Entropy of Knots and Statistics of Entangled Random Walks	p. 125
Polymers in a Random Environment and Molecular Quasi-Species	p. 129
Wetting from Mixtures of Flexible Chains	p. 133
Twins in Diamond Films	p. 137
The Crystallization of Amorphous AL: GE Thin Films	p. 141
Grain Boundary Motion During Anisotropic Grain Growth	p. 145
Soft Atomic Potentials and Low-Frequency Raman Scattering in Glasses	p. 151
Dynamics of Interface Depinning in a Disordered Medium	p. 155
Hull of Percolation Clusters in Three Dimensions	p. 159
Dynamics of Diffusion and Invasion Fronts: On the Disconnection-Reconnection Exponents of Percolation Clusters	p. 163
Diffusion Reaction [actual symbol not reproducible] with A and B Initially-Separated	p. 167
Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Aerogels and Porous Glasses	p. 173
Faraday Effect in the Multiple Scattering of Light: A Monte Carlo Simulation	p. 177
Fracton Dimensions for Elastic and Antiferromagnetic Percolating Networks	p. 181
Fractons in Computer and Laboratory Experiments	p. 185
Some Remarks on the Elastic Properties of the Nematic and Smectic A Phases of Liquid Crystals	p. 191
Permeability of a Soap Film	p. 195
Vesicles of High Topological Genus	p. 199
An Income-Distribution Demand-Shift Model of Inflation	p. 203
Neo-Darwinian Processes in the Evolution of Science and of Human Societies	p. 223
Index	p. 229
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