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Wormlike Micelles
Advances in Systems, Characterisation and Applications
Av Cecile A Dreiss, Yujun Feng
Inbunden, 2017
3190 kr
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Wormlike micelles are elongated flexible self-assembled structures created from the aggregation of amphiphiles and their resulting dynamic networks have gained attention for a number of uses, particularly in the oil industry.Written by experts, Wormlike Micelles describes the latest developments in …
Polymer-modified Liquid Crystals
Inbunden, 2019
2897 kr
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Bridging soft matter physics, materials science and engineering, polymer-modified liquid crystals are an exciting class of materials. They represent a vibrant field of research, promising advances in display technologies, as well as non-display uses.Describing all aspects of polymer-dispersed and …
Electrospinning
From Basic Research to Commercialization
Av Erich Kny, Kajal Ghosal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2835 kr
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Electrospinning is a technique used to produce nanofibres from a polymer solution using an electrostatic force. The technology is now being used to create materials for a wide variety of uses from tissue engineering and 3D printing to packaging materials and electronic sensors.This new book …
Polymer Colloids
Formation, Characterization and Applications
Av Rodney Priestley, Robert Prud'homme
Inbunden, 2019
3078 kr
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Academic and industrial research around polymer-based colloids is huge, driven both by the development of mature technologies, e.g. latexes for coatings, as well as the advancement of new materials and applications, such as building blocks for 2D/3D structures and medicine. Edited by two …
Bijels
Bicontinuous Particle-stabilized Emulsions
Av Paul S Clegg
Inbunden, 2020
3190 kr
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Bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels, now commonly termed ‘bijels’ are a class of soft materials, in which interpenetrating, continuous domains of two immiscible fluids are maintained in a rigid arrangement by a jammed layer of colloidal particles at their interface. Such gels have …
Soft Matter in Plants
From Biophysics to Biomimetics
Av Kaare H Jensen, Yoël Forterre
Inbunden, 2022
2930 kr
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Plants offer some of the most elegant applications of soft matter principles in Nature. Understanding the interplay between chemistry, physics, biology, and fluid mechanics is critical to forecast plant behaviour, which is necessary for agriculture and disease management. It also provides …
Peptide-based Biomaterials
Inbunden, 2020
3260 kr
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Research and new tools in biomaterials development by using peptides are currently growing, as more functional and versatile building blocks are used to design a host of functional biomaterials via chemical modifications for health care applications. It is a field that is attracting researchers …
Soft Matter for Biomedical Applications
Av Helena S Azevedo, João F Mano m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
3544 kr
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Dynamic soft materials that have the ability to expand and contract, change stiffness, self-heal or dissolve in response to environmental changes, are of great interest in applications ranging from biosensing and drug delivery to soft robotics and tissue engineering. This book covers the …
Droplet Microfluidics
Inbunden, 2020
2897 kr
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Droplet microfluidics offers tremendous potential as an enabling technology for high-throughput screening. It promises to yield novel techniques for personalised medicine, drug discovery, disease diagnosis, establishing chemical libraries, and the discovery of new materials. Despite the enormous …
Drying of Complex Fluid Drops
Fundamentals and Applications
Av David Brutin, Khellil Sefiane
Inbunden, 2022
2716 kr
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Coffee rings, paint drying, blood splatter are all examples of complex fluids drying. Understanding the phenomena of complex fluid drops with respect to drying is important for technology and a lot of research in academia and industry is poured into this topic. This book addresses this industrially …
Active Colloids
From Fundamentals to Frontiers
Av Juliane Simmchen, William Uspal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
3985 kr
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Active colloids are self-propelled particles, powered by energy harvested from the environment. This field of research has been growing over the past 20 years, attracting researchers from multiple disciplines. Biomedical engineers seek to harness the abilities of motile bacteria, materials chemists …
Natural Biopolymers for Wearable Devices
Av Meidan Ye, Wenxi Guo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3544 kr
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Flexible and wearable technologies are gaining wide attention with their promise of applications in sensing, electronics, and energy. The materials involved should be flexible, lightweight, robust, and non-toxic. Natural biopolymers such as silk, chitin, collagen, cellulose, and gelatine have these …
Soft Matter in Foods
Av Graeme Gillies, Dérick Rousseau
Inbunden, 2025
3804 kr
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Using soft matter physics to understand food materials at different length scales creates new opportunities for scientists in academia and industry to enhance the properties, production, and nutritional quality of processed foods. Recognising the growing transfer of knowledge between the food …
Theoretical Modelling of Dynamically Crosslinked Polymer Networks
Av Fanlong Meng, Eugene Terentjev
Inbunden, 2025
2716 kr
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Dynamically crosslinked polymer networks, including vitrimers, are an exciting new class of soft materials with tuneable properties. This comprehensive book establishes the theoretical foundations for understanding and predicting the unique behaviour of these dynamic networks and their …
Energy Generation and Storage with Soft Materials
Av Ayse Bedeloğlu, Yasin Altin
Inbunden, 2026
3622 kr
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In the pursuit of sustainable and innovative energy technologies, soft materials are emerging as a transformative paradigm. This comprehensive text examines the dynamic interplay between soft materials and energy science, revealing the immense potential of liquids, polymers, colloids, and …
Magnetic Soft Matter
Fundamentals and Applications
Inbunden, 2023
3296 kr
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Magnetically responsive soft matter is a colloidal model system where interparticle interactions can be tuned through external magnetic fields. Covering the most recent literature in the field, with special emphasis on the physical mechanisms behind their rheological behaviour, this book aims to …
Out-of-equilibrium Soft Matter
Active Fluids
Av Christina Kurzthaler, Luigi Gentile m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
3192 kr
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The term active fluids refers to motions that are created by transforming energy from the surroundings into directed motion. There are many examples, both natural and synthetic, including individual swimming bacteria or motile cells, drops and bubbles that move owing to surface stresses (so-called …
Bioactive Delivery Systems for Lipophilic Nutraceuticals
Formulation, Fabrication, and Application
Av Ming Miao, Long Chen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
3296 kr
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There is growing interest in the food, supplements, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries in improving the healthiness of their products by incorporating lipophilic bioactive substances like oil-soluble vitamins (A, D and E), omega-3 fatty acids, and nutraceuticals (carotenoids, curcuminoids and …
Fundamentals and Transport Properties of Nanofluids
Inbunden, 2022
3208 kr
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Nanofluids are an emerging class of heat transfer fluids that are engineered by dispersing nanoparticles in conventional fluids. They represent a promising, multidisciplinary field that has evolved over the past two decades to provide enhanced thermal features, as well as manifold applications in …
Mechanics of Swelling
Av Paola Nardinocchi, Luciano Teresi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
3622 kr
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Soft materials are all around us: they naturally form biological tissues and plant matter, while rubbers and gels are used as sealants, contact lenses, energy absorbers, sensors, and actuators. Most soft materials swell as they absorb fluids – in some cases this swelling is a desirable feature of …
Functional Molecular Gels
Av Beatriu Escuder, Juan F Miravet
Inbunden, 2013
2764 kr
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There is much recent interest in the field of molecular gels because of their potential use in many different applications, including biomedicine and electronic materials. Functional Molecular Gels details the latest research on molecular gels from the fundamentals of molecular gel formation to …
Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
Inbunden, 2014
2846 kr
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Hydrogels are attractive materials for uses in regenerative medicine due to their biocompatibility and high water absorbance and retention properties. Applications are emerging in stem cell niches, biopolymers and synthetic polymers for tissue scaffolding, wound healing and hydrogels for cellular …
Fluid-Structure Interactions in Low-Reynolds-Number Flows
Av Camille Duprat, Howard A Stone
Inbunden, 2015
3190 kr
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Fluid-structure interactions have been well studied over the years but most of the focus has been on high Reynolds number flows, inertially dominated flows where the drag force from the fluid typically varies as the square of the local fluid speed. There are though a large number of fluid-structure …
Particle-Stabilized Emulsions and Colloids
Formation and Applications
Inbunden, 2014
3121 kr
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There has been much scientific interest in the behaviour of colloidal particles at liquid interfaces. From a research aspect they provide model systems for fundamental studies of condensed matter physics. From a commercial aspect they provide applications for making new materials in the cosmetics, …
Non-wettable Surfaces
Theory, Preparation and Applications
Av Robin H A Ras, Abraham Marmur
Inbunden, 2016
3190 kr
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The objective of this book is to integrate information about the theory, preparation and applications of non-wettable surfaces in one volume. By combining the discussion of all three aspects together the editors will show how theory assists the development of preparations methods and how these …
