Soft Condensed Matter Physics
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- 20 September 1996
Abstract
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 structure, and topological defects that are common to all condensed matter systems but which are most easily studied in soft systems.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1996-09-20, ArXiv
- Published version: Solid State Communications, 102 (2-3), 187.
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