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 the 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 some current views on each special problem. Complex systems (polymers or granular matters, and so forth) are explained without heavy calculations, using simple scaling laws as the main tool.
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I. Introduction. Soit une solution solide AB, où des atorres « actifs» A sont substitués au hasard, aux nuds (i) du réseau périodique de la matrice B. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
groupes terminaux, maximal film, high absorption solution, strong slippage, rolling species, fluid lamellar phases, cubique simple, une monocouche, viscous tensions, marginal regime, slippage length, mobile chains, nuclear spin waves, polymer statistics, dry spreading, ideal coil, grafted chains, grafted layer, entangled regime, spin distortions, magnetic birefringence, chain dominance, precursor film, trapped chains, grafting densities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Colloid Interface Sci, American Chemical Society, Fluid Mech, Rev Mod Phys, Academic Press, Pierre Curie, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Institut Curie, Cornell University Press, Faraday Trans, Flory Huggins, Faraday Soc, France Received, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Marcel Dekker, Feature Article, Scaling Concepts, Introductory Lecture, Marie Curie, Pergamon Press, Physique Lett, Telo da Gama, Comptes Rendus Acad, Materials Sci New!
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I. Introduction. Soit une solution solide AB, où des atorres « actifs» A sont substitués au hasard, aux nuds (i) du réseau périodique de la matrice B. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
groupes terminaux, maximal film, high absorption solution, strong slippage, rolling species, fluid lamellar phases, cubique simple, une monocouche, viscous tensions, marginal regime, slippage length, mobile chains, nuclear spin waves, polymer statistics, dry spreading, ideal coil, grafted chains, grafted layer, entangled regime, spin distortions, magnetic birefringence, chain dominance, precursor film, trapped chains, grafting densities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Colloid Interface Sci, American Chemical Society, Fluid Mech, Rev Mod Phys, Academic Press, Pierre Curie, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Institut Curie, Cornell University Press, Faraday Trans, Flory Huggins, Faraday Soc, France Received, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Marcel Dekker, Feature Article, Scaling Concepts, Introductory Lecture, Marie Curie, Pergamon Press, Physique Lett, Telo da Gama, Comptes Rendus Acad, Materials Sci New!
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- Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics by Pierre Gilles De Gennes on 5 pages
- Principles of Polymer Chemistry (George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lec) by Paul J. Flory on 5 pages
- Viscoelastic Properties of Polymers by John D. Ferry on page 156, page 202, and page 216
- Molecular Theory of Capillarity (Dover Books on Chemistry) by J. S. Rowlinson on page 445, and page 431
- Biological Membranes by Dennis Chapman on page 59, and page 105
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- Polymer Yearbook 11 by R. Pethrick in Back Matter
- Lecture Notes on Electron Correlation and Magnetism (Series in Modern Condensed Matter Physics) by Patrik Fazekas in Front Matter
- Jingshin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Prof Ta-You Wu by Jong-Ping Hsu on page 47
- MAGNETISM IN HEAVY FERMIONS (Series in Modern Condensed Matter Physics - Vol. 11) by Harry B. Radousky in Front Matter
- Quantum Dissipative Systems by Ulrich Weiss in Front Matter
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