Scattering methods in complex fluids / Sow-Hsin Chen (Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Piero Tartaglia (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy).

Author:: Chen, Sow-Hsin, 1935-
Published:: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Copyright Date:: ©2015
Physical Description:: xvii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Tartaglia, Piero, 1942-

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Scattering techniques for the liquid state -- Statistical mechanics of the liquid state -- Aggregation and cluster formation -- The theory of slow dynamics in supercooled colloidal solutions -- Experiments on structural arrest -- Models of gel-forming colloids -- Dynamic crossover phenomena in confined water -- Dynamic crossover phenomena in other glass-forming liquids -- Inelastic neutron scattering in water -- Inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopy. and Machine-generated contents note: pt. I Scattering and liquids -- 1. Scattering techniques for the liquid state -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Module -- Small-angle neutron scattering -- 2. Statistical mechanics of the liquid state -- 2.1. Pair correlations and structure factors in liquids -- 2.2. The Ornstein-Zernike equation and its approximate solutions -- 2.3. Theories of macroion solutions -- 3. Aggregation and cluster formation -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Module -- Reaction controlled aggregation of colloidal particles -- 3.3. Module -- Diffusion controlled irreversible aggregation and supramolecular ordering -- 3.4. Module -- Percolation in microemulsions -- 3.5. Module -- Critical supramolecular systems -- pt. II Structural arrest -- 4. The theory of slow dynamics in supercooled colloidal solutions -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Module -- The mode-coupling theory of supercooled liquids -- 4.3. Module -- MCT for repulsive and attractive glasses -- 4.4. Module -- Clustering in systems with competing interactions -- 5. Experiments on structural arrest -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Module -- Experiments on the glass transition in PMMA -- 5.3. Module -- Copolymer solutions and higher-order singularities -- 5.4. Module -- The glass-glass transition -- 6. Models of gel-forming colloids -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Module -- Limited valence models -- 6.3. Module -- Patchy colloids and Wertheim theory -- 6.4. Module -- Gel-forming colloids and network glass formers -- pt. III Water -- 7. Dynamic crossover phenomena in confined water -- 7.1. Introductory remarks on confined water -- 7.2. Module -- Model for water's single-particle dynamics-relaxing cage model (RCM) -- 7.3. Module -- Dynamic crossover in hydration water of biomaterials -- 7.4. Module -- Dynamic crossover in hydration water of cement pastes -- 7.5. Module -- Dynamic crossover in confined water and its relation to the second critical point of water -- 7.6. Module -- Density measurement of confined water in MCM-41S -- 8. Dynamic crossover phenomena in other glass-forming liquids -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Absence of structural arrest at Tg -- 8.3. Fractional Stokes-Einstein relation -- 9. Inelastic neutron scattering in water -- 9.1. Introduction to Q-dependent density of states Gs(Q, ωμε ςαϟδο 9.2. Density-of-state measurements of water: a plausible evidence for the existence of a liquid-liquid phase transition in low-temperature water -- 9.3. Measuring boson peak as a means to explore the existence of the liquid-liquid transition in deeply-cooled confined water -- 10. Introduction to high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopy -- 10.1. Comparison of inelastic neutron scattering and inelastic X-ray scattering techniques -- 10.2. Module -- Theory of inelastic X-ray scattering from monoatomic liquids -- 10.3. Module -- Finite Q collective modes in bio-macromolecular assemblies.

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9780521883801
0521883806

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-377) and index.

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