Soft materials : structure and dynamics / edited by John R. Dutcher and Alejandro G. Marangoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutcher, John Robert, 1961-

Marangoni, Alejandro G., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amorphous substances.

Physical Description:

ix, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Marcel Dekker, 2005.

Contents:

I Synthetic Polymers

1 Mobility on Different Length Scales in Thin Polymer Films / Connie B. Roth, John R. Dutcher 1

2 Crystallization of Thin Polymer Films: Crystallinity, Kinetics, and Morphology / Vincent H. Mareau, Robert E. Prud'homme 39

3 Deformation, Stretching, and Relaxation of Single-Polymer Chains: Fundamentals and Examples / Gary W. Slater, Yannick Gratton, Martin Kenward, Laurette McCormick, Frederic Tessier 73

4 Science and Engineering of Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites: Insights from Computer Simulation / Francis W. Starr, Sharon C. Glotzer 107

II Complex Fluids

5 Polymeric Additives as Modifiers of Hydrocarbon Crystallization Behavior / Jeffrey L. Hutter 125

6 Confinement and Shear Effects on the Structure of a Smectic Liquid-Crystal Complex Fluid / Stefan H. J. Idziak 155

7 Macroscopic Rheological Behavior of Dispersions of Soft Rubberlike Solid Particles / Rajinder Pal 179

III Biomaterials

8 Computer Simulations of Mechanical Micromanipulation of Proteins / Alexandre S. Lemak, James R. Lepock, Jeff Z. Y. Chen 201

9 Structure-Function Relationships of Aspartic Proteinases / Rickey Y. Yada, Takuji Tanaka 227

10 Computer Simulation of Soft Mesoscopic Systems Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics / David A. Pink 265

IV Food Materials

11 Crystallization of Bulk Fats Under Shear / Gianfranco Mazzanti, Sarah E. Guthrie, Eric B. Sirota, Alejandro G. Marangoni, Stefan H. J. Idziak 279

12 Foods at Subzero Temperatures / H. Douglas Goff 299

13 Biogenic Cellular Solids / Martin G. Scanlon 321

14 Modeling of Formation and Rheology of Protein Particle Gels / Joost H. J. van Opheusden 351.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824753585

OCLC:

56922061