Complex Fluids

This collection of survey papers, accessible to graduate students, gives a thorough exposition of the research on complex fluids (with internal structure), which is important also for industrial applications.

Zusammenfassung

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Inhalt
The phase behaviour of colloid-polymer and colloid-colloid mixtures.- Dynamics of crystallization in model hard sphere suspensions.- Structure of dna mesophases.- Charge structure in electrolytes and polyelectrolytes. Experimental evidence and interpretation.- Ferrofluids. Hydrodynamical and statistical aspects.- Ferrofluids : Magneto-optic effects in time dependent magnetic fields.- Colloidal stability influence on rheology of magnetic fluids.- NMR and dynamics in polymeric systems. Melts, gels and blends.- Weakly charged polyelectrolytes solutions.- Order through disorder: Entropy-driven phase transitions.- Polydisperse complex fluids.- Monte Carlo simulation of liquid n-alkanes.- Transport in electrolytes using the mean spherical approximation: Electrical conductance and self-diffusion coefficient as a function of concentration in solutions.- Computer simulation of macromolecules in solution: Modelling of solvent effects on ions in water.- Orientational freezing within the effective liquid approach.- Rheology of textured materials.- Physical modelling using microparticles.- Bridging in grafted layers : Statics and kinetics.- Stress relaxation in diblock copolymers.- A molecular theory for spatially inhomogeneous, concentrated solutions of rod-like liquid crystal polymers.- Intermittency patterns of fluctuations in disaggregating systems.- Void fraction dynamics in fluidization.- Micelles and microemulsions.- Froths and foams.- Clustering and relaxation in oil-continuous microemulsions.- Neutron scattering experiments on nonaqueous electrolyte solutions.- Nematogenic fluids in shear flow: A laboratory for nonequilibrium physics.- Dynamic structure factor of sponge phases.- Liquid crystal formation in semiflexible polymer solutions: effects of chain stiffness, electrostatic interaction, and polydispersity.