Soft Matter McLeish Tom FRS Professor of Natural Philosophy University of York
Soft Matter McLeish Tom FRS Professor of Natural Philosophy University of York Soft matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has…
Specifikacia Soft Matter McLeish Tom FRS Professor of Natural Philosophy University of York
Soft Matter McLeish Tom FRS Professor of Natural Philosophy University of York
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. 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.This Very Short Introduction delves into the field of soft matter, looking beneath the appearances of matter into its inner structure. Drawing on physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering, soft matter links fundamental scientific ideas to everyday phenomena.
From hair conditioner to honey, he discusses how the shared physical properties and characteristics of these materials Tom McLeish shows how Brownian Motion - the random local motion of molecules that gives rise to 'heat' - is an underlying principle of soft matter.