Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter Physics de Shigeyuki Komura

Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter Physics: Series in Soft Condensed Matter, cartea 4

Shigeyuki Komura

Takao Ohta

Soft matter is a concept which covers polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, amphiphilic molecules, glasses, granular and biological materials. One of the fundamental characteristic features of soft matter is that it exhibits various mesoscopic structures originating from a large number of internal degrees of freedom of each molecule. Due to such intermediate structures, soft matter can easily be brought into non-equilibrium states and cause non-linear responses by imposing external fields such as an electric field, a mechanical stress or a shear flow.

Volume 4 of the series in Soft Condensed Matter focuses on the non-linear and non-equilibrium properties of soft matter. It contains a collection of review articles on the current topics of non-equilibrium soft matter physics written by leading experts in the field. The topics dealt with in this volume includes rheology of polymers and liquid crystals, dynamical properties of Langmuir monolayers at the air/water interface, hydrodynamics of membranes and twisted filaments as well as dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles and migration of biological cells. This book serves both as an introduction to students as well as a useful reference to researchers.

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The term soft matter includes various aspects of polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, amphiphiles, glasses, granular and biological materials. Of particular interest and importance in the study of soft matter is to clarify, from a unified viewpoint, the formation of the mesoscopic structures and non-equilibrium states under various external stimuli such as flow, electric, magnetic, stress or optical fields. Research on the structure and dynamics of soft matter will provide us with a new way to regulate the mesoscopic structures. We shall call this fascinating area of physics for the 21st century non-equilibrium soft matter physics, aimed at combining non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and soft matter physics. This volume contains a collection of review articles on the current topics of non-equilibrium soft matter physics written by leading experts in the field. The topics dealt within this volume include evaporation, non-equilibrium fluctuations, structural rheology, and active matter. Some of the issues highlighted in this book are the new outcomes of the national research project supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on priority area 'soft matter physics' from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.