Simple Views on Condensed Matter

by Gennes, Pierre-Gilles De

• ISBN13: 9789810232702
• ISBN10: 9810232705
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

This volume contains a selection of important papers by P-G de Gennes (1991 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics) which have had a long-lasting impact on our understanding of condensed matter (solid state physics, liquid crystals, polymers, interfaces, wetting and adhesion). A typical example is the original article on "reptation" of polymer chains. The author has added some "afterthoughts" to the main papers (explaining their successes or weaknesses), and the current views on each special problem. Complex systems (polymers or granular matters, etc) are explained without heavy calculations -- using simple scaling laws as the main tool.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the first edition	v
Foreword to the expanded edition	vii
Part I. Solid State
Sur un exemple de propagation dans un milieu desordonne	3	(10)
P. Lafore
J. P. Millot
Effects of double exchange in magnetic crystals	13	(15)
Nuclear magnetic resonance modes in magnetic material. I. Theory	28	(11)
P. A. Pincus
F. Hartmann-Boutron
J. M. Winter
Onset of superconductivity in decreasing fields	39	(4)
D. Saint-James
Boundary effects in superconductors	43	(16)
Part II. Liquid Crystals
Soluble model for fibrous structures with steric constraints	59	(3)
Conjectures sur l'etat smectique	62	(8)
Dynamics of fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals	70	(8)
Note on the dynamics of prenematic fluids	78	(3)
J. Prost
An analogy between superconductors and smectics A	81	(5)
Hydrodynamic properties of fluid lamellar phases of lipid/water	86	(25)
F. Brochard
Part III. Polymers
Quasi-elastic scattering of neutrons by dilute polymer solutions: Free-draining limit	111	(9)
Quasi-elastic scattering by dilute, ideal, polymer solutions: Effects of hydrodynamic interactions	120	(18)
E. Dubois-Violette
Minimum number of aminoacids required to build up a specific receptor with a folded polypeptide chain	138	(11)
Reptation of a polymer chain in the presence of fixed obstacles	149	(9)
Coil-stretch transition of dilute flexible polymers under ultrahigh velocity gradients	158	(14)
Solutions of flexible polymers. Neutron experiments and interpretation	172	(15)
M. Daoud
J.P. Cotton
B. Farnoux
G. Jannink
G. Sarma
H. Benoit
R. Duplessix
C. Picot
Theoretical methods of polymer statistics	187	(16)
Ecoulements viscometriques de polymeres enchevetres	203	(3)
Theory of long-range correlations in polymer melts	206	(9)
Tight knots	215	(3)
A second type of phase separation in polymer solutions	218	(9)
Part IV. Interfaces
Phenomenes aux parois dans un melange binaire critique	227	(5)
M. E. Fisher
Suspensions colloidales dans une solution de polymeres	232	(3)
Conformations of polymers attached to an interface	235	(8)
Sur une regle de somme pour des chaines polymeriques semi-diluees pres d'une paroi	243	(2)
Microemulsions and the flexibility of oil/water interfaces	245	(11)
C. Taupin
Transitions de monocouches a molecules polaires	256	(4)
D. Andelman
F. Brochard
J.-F. Joanny
Polymers at an interface; a simplified view	260	(22)
Stabilite des films de savons ``jeunes''	282	(5)
Shear-dependent slippage at a polymer/solid interface	287	(5)
F. Brochard
Slippage of polymer melts on grafted surfaces	292	(7)
F. Brochard-Wyart
C. Gay
Injection threshold for a star polymer inside a nanopore	299	(7)
F. Brochard-Wyart
Injection threshold for a statistically branched polymer inside a nanopore	306	(4)
C. Gay
E. Raphael
F. Brochard-Wyart
Mechanics of soft interfaces	310	(8)
Soft adhesives	318	(7)
Part V. Wetting and Adhesion
Wetting: statics and dynamics	325	(38)
Dynamics of drying and film-thinning Physics of Amphiphilic Layers	363	(10)
J. Meunier
D. Langevin
N. Bocarra
Tension superficielle des polymeres fondus	373	(5)
Etalement d'une goutte stratifiee incompressible	378	(7)
A. M. Cazabat
Dynamics of partial wetting	385	(14)
F. Brochard-Wyart
Fracture d'un adhesif faiblement reticule	399	(6)
Polymer-polymer welding and sliding	405	(20)
A model for contact angle hystersis	425	(11)
J. F. Joanny
Dynamics of wetting with nonideal surfaces. The single defect problem	436	(8)
E. Raphael
Eponges filantes	444	(6)
Shocks in an inertial dewetting process	450	(4)
F. Brochard-Wyart
Dewetting of a water film between a solid and a rubber	454	(7)
F. Brochard-Wyart
Part VI. Chirality
Sur l'impossibilite de certaines syntheses asymetriques	461	(3)
Pierre Curie et le role de la symetrie dans les lois physiques	464	(9)
N. Boccara
Discrimination chirale dans une monocouche de Langmuir	473	(8)
D. Andelman
Part VII. Granular Matter
Avalanches of granular materials	481
R. P. Behringer
J. T. Jenkins