Titlebook: Soft Matter; The stuff that dream Roberto Piazza Book 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 cells as soft materials.complex fluids

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Dreamtime,heets and acrobatics of the amino acids – Chemists, architects, truck drivers, aerial fitters, janitors, guards, sometimes even killers: a thousand jobs for proteins – Solar cells, molecular turbines and tightrope walkers: wonders of the biological nanomachines – Lunch break, with a high protein con

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Weird words: soft matter from A to Z,either exhaustive, nor very accurate, but I hope it contains most of what you need to follow the text. You may wish to browse it occasionally or read it in the end to revise some concepts. Here, too, you will find an added bonus, consisting of additional information that did not fit in the main text

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A life in suspense,ssert) – A love/hate relationship: electric ambivalence, volcanic landscapes, and concrete – From lowlands fog to Titian’s palette: scattering light and colours – E-paper: when colloids become writers – Gorgeous sunsets and blue moons: the aerosols’ deceptive beauty.

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Freedom in chains,operties of rubber and plastic – Snake dance: polymer coils, nets and molasses – Elastic by chance: entropy tricks and superheroes – Panta rei: even the mountains flow before God – Indiana Jones’ nightmares: the rheology of reptiles – Polymers to the charge: the polyelectrolytes.

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Nanoarchitecture,f shape: when it takes an MRI scan to grasp what a glass really is – Sand, dust, and grains: when suspensions lose their suspenders – Sandcastles and quicksand: from silos to hourglasses, from nuts to jams.

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ial as to spoil the fun.” This is exactly the approach of this book in making the science of ‘soft matter’ relevant to everyday life things such as the food we eat, the plastic we use, the concrete we build with, the cells we are made of..978-94-007-0584-5978-94-007-0585-2

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have in common?.Nuggets of science hidden in the things tha.Roberto Piazza says: “Physics should be made simple enough to be amusing, but not so trivial as to spoil the fun.” This is exactly the approach of this book in making the science of ‘soft matter’ relevant to everyday life things such as th

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