Soft Matter
A Very Short Introduction
$21.95
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2020
Summary
Soft Matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a rich interdisciplinary field over the last 30 years. Drawing on physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering, soft matter links fundamental scientific ideas to everyday phenomena. One such example is ‘polymers’, encountered in plastic materials and melted cheese, which illustrate how ‘sliminess’ emerges from the flow and form of giant molecules.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198807131 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198807139 |
| Author: | Tom McLeish |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 121mm x 175mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
What comes across is McLeish’s passion for his topic, his wonder at how nature creates rhymes and variations in the poetry of the physical world, and his joy in the mysteries and delights to be found in the apparently mundane. * Phil Ball, Los Angeles Review of Books *
Tom McLeish
Tom McLeish FRS is Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of York. His research has contributed to the new fields of ‘soft matter physics’ and ‘biological physics’, working with chemists, engineers, and biologists to connect molecular structure with emergent properties. His research interests also include the framing of science, society, and science policy, and is the author of Faith and Wisdom in Science (OUP, 2014). He was Pro-Vice-Chancellorfor Research at Durham University from 2008-2014, and is both the current chair of the Royal Society’s Education Committee and a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation. He was the first winner of the Institute of Physics Edwards Prize (2017) for his work on soft matter.
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