Book Series: Series in Soft Condensed Matter

Founding Advisor
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 (Collège de France, France)

The study of “Soft Condensed Matter” has stimulated fruitful interactions between physicists, chemists, and engineers, and is now reaching out to biologists. A broad interdisciplinary community involving all these areas of science has emerged over the last 30 years, and with it our knowledge of “Soft Condensed Matter” has grown considerably with the active investigations of polymers, supramolecular assemblies of designed organic molecules, liquid crystals, colloids, lyotropic systems, emulsions, biopolymers, biomembranes, ...

The present Book Series will cover a large number of diverse aspects, both theoretical and experimental, and a wide variety of types of publications on all areas of “Soft Condensed Matter”. It will consist of independent volumes with the basic format of 100-150 pages. They could be lecture notes on advanced topics with contributions by various authors or short monographs in a lighter style, written by experts in the corresponding areas. This series is mainly addressing the graduate and young researchers as an introduction to the new fields, but it should also be useful to experienced people who would like to change their field of research. Taking into account that research in the field of “Soft Condensed Matter” involves ideas coming physics, chemistry, materials science and, not to forget, also from biology, this series may form a bridge between all these communities with the aim to provide a comprehensive and substantial understanding of all kinds of phenomena relevant in “Soft Condensed Matter”.

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