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Statistical Thermodynamics of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Membranes (Paperback)
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Statistical Thermodynamics of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Membranes (Paperback)
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Understanding the structural and thermodynamic properties of
surfaces, interfaces, and membranes is important for both
fundamental and practical reasons. Important applications include
coatings, dispersants, encapsulating agents, and biological
materials. Soft materials, important in the development of new
materials and the basis of many biological systems, cannot be
designed using trial and error methods due to the multiplicity of
components and parameters. While these systems can sometimes be
analyzed in terms of microscopic mixtures, it is often conceptually
simpler to regard them as dispersions and to focus on the
properties of the internal interfaces found in these systems. The
basic physics centers on the properties of quasi-two-dimensional
systems embedded in the three-dimensional world, thus exhibiting
phenomena that do not exist in bulk materials. This approach is the
basis behind the theoretical presentation of Statistical
Thermodynamics of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Membranes. The approach
adapted allows one to treat the rich diversity of phenomena
investigated in the field of soft matter physics (including both
colloid/interface science as well as the materials and
macromolecular aspects of biological physics) such as interfacial
tension, the roughening transition, wetting, interactions between
surfaces, membrane elasticity, and self-assembly. Presented as a
set of lecture notes, this book is aimed at physicists, physical
chemists, biological physicists, chemical engineers, and materials
scientists who are interested in the statistical mechanics that
underlie the macroscopic, thermodynamic properties of surfaces,
interfaces, and membranes. This paperback edition contains all the
material published in the original hard-cover edition as well as
additional clarifications and explanations.
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