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Soft condensed matter physics [PDF]
Solid State Communications, 1997 Soft condensed matter physics is the study of materials, such as fluids, liquid crystals, polymers, colloids, and emulsions, that are ``soft" to the touch. This article will review some properties, such as the dominance of entropy, that are unique to soft materials and some properties such as the interplay between broken-symmetry, dynamic mode ...
T. C. Lubensky
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Viruses and the physics of soft condensed matter [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004 Almost 50 years ago, Francis Crick and James Watson observed that “almost all small viruses are either spheres or rods” and put forth the hypothesis that such viruses were symmetrical arrays of subunits (1). In the following paper in that issue of Nature , Donald Caspar demonstrated that tomato bushy stunt virus had at least cubic symmetry and provided
Adam Zlotnick
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Knots in soft condensed matter [PDF]
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 Understanding the mechanism by which a polypeptide chain thread itself spontaneously to attain a knotted conformation has been a major challenge in the field of protein folding. HP0242 is a homodimeric protein from Helicobacter pylori with intertwined helices to form a unique pseudo-knotted folding topology.
Coluzza, Ivan +3 more
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Shock (Blast) Mitigation by “Soft” Condensed Matter [PDF]
MRS Proceedings, 2002 ABSTRACTIt is a common point that “soft” condensed matter (like granular materials or foams) can reduce damage caused by impact or explosion. It is attributed to their ability to absorb significant energy. This is certainly the case for quasistatic type of deformation at low velocity of impact widely used for packing of fragile devices.
V. F. Nesterenko
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Soft condensed matter physics of foods and macronutrients [PDF]
Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 Nature Reviews Physics, 1 (9)
Salvatore Assenza +2 more
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Yield stress materials in soft condensed matter [PDF]
Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 Review article: V1: 58 pages, 38 figs, 487 refs. V2: Final version 44 pages, 27 figs, 449 refs. Accepted for publication in Rev.
Bonn, Daniel +4 more
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Sub-wavelength surface IR imaging of soft-condensed matter [PDF]
The European Physical Journal Applied Physics, 2010 Outlined here is a technique for sub-wavelength infrared surface imaging performed using a phase matched optical parametric oscillator laser and an atomic force microscope as the detection mechanism. The technique uses a novel surface excitation illumination approach to perform simultaneously chemical mapping and AFM topography imaging with an image ...
James H. Rice +5 more
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Soft condensed matter for the conservation of cultural heritage [PDF]
Comptes Rendus. Chimie, 2008 This paper reports on the application of Soft Condensed Matter to the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and is manly based on the conversation that one of the authors (Piero Baglioni) had with Pierre Gilles de Gennes during his last visit to Florence.
BAGLIONI, PIERO +2 more
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Positron Kinetics in Soft Condensed Matter [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2009 We outline a new kinetic theory for positrons in soft matter, which blends together cross sections for positrons scattering from single molecules, with the structure function of the medium as a whole. Numerical results are presented for positrons in liquid argon, where negative differential conductivity arises from both positron formation and the ...
Robert Robson +2 more
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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