Soft Materials: Structure and Dynamics

by Dutcher; John R.

• ISBN13: 9780824753580
• ISBN10: 0824753585
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This detailed reference offers a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of soft materials, including synthetic polymers, complex fluids, and biological and food materials. The authors take an interdisciplinary approach and use an abundance of experimental and computational techniques to illustrate the relationship between the structure, dynamics, and function of soft materials. Divided into four sections on synthetic polymers, complex fluids, biomaterials, and food materials, the book supplies over a thousand references, tables, and equations, offering an excellent introduction to the study of soft material physics and utilization.

Author Biography

John R. Dutcher is Professor, Department of Physics and Scientific Director, Centre for Food and Soft Materials Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Alejandro G. Marangoni is Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Contributors	vii
I. Synthetic Polymers
1. Mobility on Different Length Scales in Thin Polymer Films	1	(38)
Connie B. Roth and John R. Dutcher
2. Crystallization of Thin Polymer Films: Crystallinity, Kinetics, and Morphology	39	(34)
Vincent H. Mareau and Robert E. Prud'homme
3. Deformation, Stretching, and Relaxation of Single-Polymer Chains: Fundamentals and Examples	73	(34)
Gary W. Slater, Yannick Gratton, Martin Kenward, Laurette McCormick, and Frederic Tessier
4. Science and Engineering of Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites: Insights from Computer Simulation	107	(18)
Francis W. Starr and Sharon C. Glotzer
II. Complex Fluids
5. Polymeric Additives as Modifiers of Hydrocarbon Crystallization Behavior	125	(30)
Jeffrey L. Hutter
6. Confinement and Shear Effects on the Structure of a Smectic Liquid-Crystal Complex Fluid	155	(24)
Stefan H.J. Idziak
7. Macroscopic Rheological Behavior of Dispersions of Soft Rubberlike Solid Particles	179	(22)
Rajinder Pal
III. Biomaterials
8. Computer Simulations of Mechanical Micromanipulation of Proteins	201	(26)
Alexandre S. Lemak, James R. Lepock, and Jeff Z.Y. Chen
9. Structure-Function Relationships of Aspartic Proteinases	227	(38)
Rickey Y. Yada and Takuji Tanaka
10. Computer Simulation of Soft Mesoscopic Systems Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics	265	(14)
David A. Pink
IV. Food Materials
11. Crystallization of Bulk Fats Under Shear	279	(20)
Gianfranco Mazzanti, Sarah E. Guthrie, Eric B. Sirota, Alejandro G. Marangoni, and Stefan H.J. Idziak
12. Foods at Subzero Temperatures	299	(22)
H. Douglas Goff
13. Biogenic Cellular Solids	321	(30)
Martin G. Scanlon
14. Modeling of Formation and Rheology of Protein Particle Gels	351	(36)
Joost H.J. van Opheusden
Index	387