Simple Views on Condensed Matter

by De Gennes, Pierre-Gilles

• ISBN13: 9789810209094
• ISBN10: 9810209096
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• 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

Solid State

Sur un exemple de propagation dans un milieu desordonne

Effects of double exchange in magnetic crystals

Nuclear magnetic resonance modes in magnetic material. I. Theory

Onset of superconductivity in decreasing fields

Boundary effects in superconductors

Liquid Crystals

Soluble model for fibrous structures with steric constraints

Conjectures sur l'etat smectique

Dynamics of fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals

Note on the dynamics of prenematic fluids

An analogy between superconductors and smectics A

Hydrodynamic properties of fluid lamellar phases of lipid/water

Polymers

Quasi-elastic scattering of neutrons by dilute, ideal, polymer solutions: I. Free-draining limit

Quasi-elastic scattering of neutrons by dilute, ideal, polymer solutions: II. Effects of hydrodynamic interactions

Minimum number of aminoacids required to build up a specific receptor with a folded polypeptide chain

Reptation of a polymer chain in the presence of fixed obstacles

Coil-stretch transition of dilute flexible polymers under ultrahigh velocity gradients

Solutions of flexible polymers: neutron experiments and interpretation

Theoretical methods of polymer statistics

Ecoulements viscometriques de polymeres enchevetres

Theory of long-range correlations in polymer melts

Tight knots

A second type of phase separation in polymer solutions

Phenomenes aux parois dans un melange binaire critique

Suspensions colloidales dans une solution de polymeres

Conformations of polymers attached to an interface

Sur une regle de somme pour des chaines polymeriques semi-diluees pres d'une paroi

Microemulsions and the flexibility of oil/water interfaces

Transitions de monocouches a molecules polaires

Polymers at an interface: a simplified view

Stabilite des films de savon "jeunes"

Wetting and Adhesion

Wetting: statics and dynamics

Dynamics of drying and film-thinning

Tension superficielle des polymeres fondus

Etalement d'une goutte stratifiee incompressible

Dynamics of partial wetting

Fracture d'un adhesif faiblement reticule

Polymer-polymer welding and sliding

Chirality

Sur l'impossibilite de certaines syntheses asymetriques

Pierre Curie et le role de la symetrie dans des lois physiques

Discrimination chirale dans une monocouche de Langmuir

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