Langbeschreibung
This publication, in two volumes, is devoted to the scientific impact of the work of Nobel Laureate, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. It covers the important fields for which de Gennes was renowned: solid state (magnetism and superconductivity), macroscopic random media and percolation, supersolids, liquid crystals, polymers, adhesion and friction, and biophysics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface (J Prost); Polymers, n=0 (T Witten); Dynamics of Entangled Polymers: the Three Key Ideas (M Rubinstein); Polyelectrolytes: The de Gennes Legacy (P Pincus & O Saleh); Polymers in Confined Geometries (K Guevorkian & F Brochard-Wyart); Adhesion and Friction (H Brown); An Approach to Cell Adhesion Inspired from Polymer Physics (P Nassoy); Spreading Made a Splash (L Bocquet).