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Biological Water - Physicochemical Aspects

by Gertz I. Likhtenshtein

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 This book embraces all physiochemical aspects of the structure and molecular dynamics of water, focusing on its role in biological objects, e.g.
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Physics Of Liquid Matter

by Mauro Rovere e Paola Gallo

154,11€ + 10% CARD

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 This book offers a didactic and a self-contained treatment of the physics of liquid and flowing matter with a statistical mechanics approach.
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Frontiers And Progress Of Current Soft Matter Research

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 This book covers some fundamental aspects and frontiers in non-equilibrium physics and soft matter research.
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Adversary-Aware Learning Techniques And Trends In Cybersecurity

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 This book is intended to give researchers and practitioners in the cross-cutting fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) and cyber security up-to-date and in-depth knowledge of recent techniques for improving the vulnerabilities of AI/ML systems against attacks from malicious adversaries.
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Flowing Matter

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 This open access book, published in the Soft and Biological Matter series, presents an introduction to selected research topics in the broad field of flowing matter, including the dynamics of fluids with a complex internal structure -from nematic fluids to soft glasses- as well as active matter and turbulent phenomena.Flowing matter is a subject at the crossroads between physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, biology and earth sciences, and relies on a multidisciplinary approach to describe the emergence of the macroscopic behaviours in a system from the coordinated dynamics of its microscopic constituents. Depending on the microscopic interactions, an assembly of molecules or of mesoscopic particles can flow like a simple Newtonian fluid, deform elastically like a solid or behave in a complex manner. When the internal constituents are active, as for biological entities, one generally observes complex large-scale collective motions. Phenomenology is further complicated by the invariable tendency of fluids to display chaos at the large scales or when stirred strongly enough. This volume presents several research topics that address these phenomena encompassing the traditional micro-, meso-, and macro-scales descriptions, and contributes to our understanding of the fundamentals of flowing matter.This book is the legacy of the COST Action MP1305 "Flowing Matter".
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Biological Water - Physicochemical Aspects

by Gertz I. Likhtenshtein

189,25€ + 10% CARD

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 This book embraces all physiochemical aspects of the structure and molecular dynamics of water, focusing on its role in biological objects, e.g.
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Physics Of Liquid Matter

by Mauro Rovere e Paola Gallo

148,70€ + 10% CARD

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 This book offers a didactic and a self-contained treatment of the physics of liquid and flowing matter with a statistical mechanics approach.
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Hydration Structures Of Proteins - Atomic Details

by Masayoshi Nakasako

175,73€ + 10% CARD

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 Topics on protein hydration from the past 25 years are examined, most of which involve crystallography, fluorescence measurements, and molecular dynamics simulations.In X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations, recent advances have accelerated the study of hydration structures over the entire surface of proteins.
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Biological Water - Physicochemical Aspects

by Gertz I. Likhtenshtein

184,84€ + 10% CARD

 This book embraces all physiochemical aspects of the structure and molecular dynamics of water, focusing on its role in biological objects, e.g.
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Hydration Structures Of Proteins - Atomic Details

by Masayoshi Nakasako

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 Topics on protein hydration from the past 25 years are examined, most of which involve crystallography, fluorescence measurements, and molecular dynamics simulations.In X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations, recent advances have accelerated the study of hydration structures over the entire surface of proteins.
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Physics Of Liquid Matter

by Mauro Rovere e Paola Gallo

151,05€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers a didactic and a self-contained treatment of the physics of liquid and flowing matter with a statistical mechanics approach.
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Frontiers And Progress Of Current Soft Matter Research

148,70€ + 10% CARD

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 This book covers some fundamental aspects and frontiers in non-equilibrium physics and soft matter research.
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Emulsions, Microemulsions And Foams

by Dominique Langevin

174,24€ + 10% CARD

 This book takes an interface science approach to describe and understand the behavior of the dispersions we call emulsions, microemulsions and foams. The one thing all these dispersions have in common is the presence of surface-active species (surfactants) adsorbed at the interfaces between the two fluid phases that make up the emulsions, microemulsions or foams. The interfacial layers formed by the surfactants control most of the properties of the dispersions.The book describes the properties of interfacial layers, thin films and bulk fluids used in the elaboration of the various dispersions and it explains how such properties relate to the dispersion properties of these soft matter systems: structure, rheology and stability. These dispersion properties are far from being fully understood, in particular foam and emulsion stability. In discussing the state of the art of the current knowledge, the author draws interesting parallels between emulsions, microemulsions and foamsthat enlighten the interpretation of previous observations and point to a deeper understanding of the behavior of these materials in the future.
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Frontiers And Progress Of Current Soft Matter Research

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 This book covers some fundamental aspects and frontiers in non-equilibrium physics and soft matter research.
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Granular Gaseous Flows - A Kinetic Theory Approach To Granular Gaseous Flows

by Vicente Garzo

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 <div>Back Cover Text:This book addresses the study of the gaseous state of granular matter in the conditions of rapid flow caused by a violent and sustained excitation. In this regime, grains only touch each other during collisions and hence, kinetic theory is a very useful tool to study granular flows. The main difference with respect to ordinary or molecular fluids is that grains are macroscopic and so, their collisions are inelastic. Given the interest in the effects of collisional dissipation on granular media under rapid flow conditions, the emphasis of this book is on an idealized model (smooth inelastic hard spheres) that isolates this effect from other important properties of granular systems. In this simple model, the inelasticity of collisions is only accounted for by a (positive) constant coefficient of normal restitution.The author of this monograph uses a kinetic theory description (which can be considered as a mesoscopic description between statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics) to study granular flows from a microscopic point of view. In particular, the inelastic version of the Boltzmann and Enskog kinetic equations is the starting point of the analysis. Conventional methods such as Chapman-Enskog expansion, Grad’s moment method and/or kinetic models are generalized to dissipative systems to get the forms of the transport coefficients and hydrodynamics. The knowledge of granular hydrodynamics opens up the possibility of understanding interesting problems such as the spontaneous formation of density clusters and velocity vortices in freely cooling flows and/or the lack of energy equipartition in granular mixtures.Some of the topics covered in this monograph include: <li>Navier-Stokes transport coefficients for granular gases at moderate densities</li> <li>Long-wavelength instability in freely cooling flows</li> <li>Non-Newtonian transport properties in granular shear flows</li> <li>Energynonequipartition in freely cooling granular mixtures</li> <li>Diffusion in strongly sheared granular mixtures</li> <li>Exact solutions to the Boltzmann equation for inelastic Maxwell models</li> <ul> </ul></div>
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Introduction To The Theory Of Soft Matter - From Ideal Gases To Liquid Crystals

by Jonathan V. Selinger

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 This book presents the theory of soft matter to students at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. It will also equip students going into experimental soft matter science to be fully conversant with the theoretical aspects and have effective collaborations with theorists.
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Structure Of Ionic Liquids

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 This volume describes the most recent findings on the structure of ILs interpreted through cutting-edge experimental and theoretical methods. Research in the field of ionic liquids (ILs) keeps a fast and steady pace. Since these new-generation molten salts first appeared in the chemistry and physics landscape, a large number of new compounds has been synthesized. Most of them display unexpected behaviour and possess stunning properties. The coverage in this book ranges from the mesoscopic structure of ILs to their interaction with proteins. The reader will learn how diffraction techniques (small and large angle X-Ray and neutron scattering, powder methods), X-Ray absorption spectroscopies (EXAFS/XANES), optical methods (IR, RAMAN), NMR and calorimetric methods can help the study of ILs, both as neat liquids and in mixtures with other compounds. It will enable the reader to choose the best method to suit their experimental needs. A detailed survey of theoretical methods, both quantum-chemical and classical, and of their predictive power will accompany the exposition of experimental ones. This book is a must read for postgraduate students, for post-docs, and for researchers who are interested in understanding the structural properties of ILs.
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Rheophysics - Matter In All Its States

by Philippe Coussot

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 This book presents a unified view of the physicochemical origin of the mechanical behaviour of gases, simple solids and liquids, suspensions, polymers, emulsions, foams, and granular materials, along with techniques for measuring that behaviour.
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Quartz Crystal Microbalance In Soft Matter Research - Fundamentals And Modeling

by Diethelm Johannsmann

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 This book describes the physics of the second-generation quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), a fundamental method of analysis for soft matter at interfaces.From a device for measuring film thickness in vacuum, the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has in the past two decades evolved into a versatile instrument for analyzing soft matter at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces that found applications in diverse fields including the life sciences, material science, polymer research and electrochemistry. As a consequence of this success, the QCM is now being used by scientists with a wide variety of backgrounds to study an impressive diversity of samples, with intricate data analysis methods being elaborated along the way. It is for these practitioners of the QCM that the book is written. It brings across basic principles behind the technique and the data analysis methods in sufficient detail to be educational and in a format that is accessible to anyone with an undergraduate level knowledge of any of the physical or natural sciences. These principles concern the analysis of acoustic shear waves and build on a number of fundamental physical concepts which many users of the technique do not usually come across. They have counterparts in optical spectroscopy, electrical engineering, quantum mechanics, rheology and mechanics, making this book a useful educational resource beyond the QCM itself. The main focus is the physics of QCM, but as the book describes the behavior of the QCM when exposed to films, droplets, polymer brushes, particles, vesicles, nanobubbles and stick-slip, it also offers insight into the behavior of soft matter at interfaces in a more general sense.
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Introduction To The Theory Of Soft Matter - From Ideal Gases To Liquid Crystals

by Jonathan V. Selinger

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 This book presents the theory of soft matter to students at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. It will also equip students going into experimental soft matter science to be fully conversant with the theoretical aspects and have effective collaborations with theorists.
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Non-Equilibrium Phenomena In Confined Soft Matter - Irreversible Adsorption, Physical Aging And Glass Transition At The Nanoscale

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 This book deals with those properties of non-equilibrium soft matter that deviate greatly from the bulk properties as a result of nanoscale confinement.The ultimate physical origin of these confinement effects is not yet fully understood.
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Physics At The Biomolecular Interface - Fundamentals For Molecular Targeted Therapy

by Ariel Fernandez

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book focuses primarily on the role of interfacial forces in understanding biological phenomena at the molecular scale. By providing a suitable statistical mechanical apparatus to handle the biomolecular interface, the book becomes uniquely positioned to address core problems in molecular biophysics. It highlights the importance of interfacial tension in delineating a solution to the protein folding problem, in unravelling the physico-chemical basis of enzyme catalysis and protein associations, and in rationally designing molecular targeted therapies. Thus grounded in fundamental science, the book develops a powerful technological platform for drug discovery, while it is set to inspire scientists at any level in their careers determined to address the major challenges in molecular biophysics.The acknowledgment of how exquisitely the structure and dynamics of proteins and their aqueous environment are related attests to the overdue recognition that biomolecular phenomena cannot be effectively understood without dealing with interfacial behaviour. There is an urge to grasp how biologically relevant behaviour is shaped by the structuring of biomolecular interfaces and how interfacial tension affects the molecular events that take place in the cell. This book squarely addresses these needs from a physicist perspective.The book may serve as a monograph for practitioners and, alternatively, as an advanced textbook. Fruitful reading requires a background in physical chemistry and some basics in biophysics. The selected problems at the end of the chapters and the progression in conceptual difficulty make it a suitable textbook for a graduate level course or an elective course for seniors majoring in chemistry, physics, biomedical engineering or related disciplines.
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Liquid Crystal Colloids

by Igor Musevic

145,09€ + 10% CARD

 This book brings together the many concepts and discoveries in liquid crystal colloids contributed over the last twenty years and scattered across numerous articles and book chapters. It provides both a historical overview of the development of the field and a clear perspective on the future applications in photonics. The book covers all phenomena observed in liquid crystal colloids with an emphasis on experimental tools and applications of topology in condensed matter, as well as practical micro-photonics applications. It includes a number of spectacular manifestations of new topological phenomena not found or difficult to observe in other systems. Starting from the early works on nematic colloids, it explains the basics of topological defects in ordered media, charge and winding, and the elastic forces between colloidal particles in nematics. Following a detailed description of experimental methods, such as optical tweezing and particle tracking, the book eases the reader into the theoretical part, which deals with elastic deformation of nematic liquid crystals due to inclusions and surface alignment. This is discussed in the context of basic mean field Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor theory, with a brief explanation of the free-energy minimization numerical methods. There then follows an excursion into the topology of complex nematic colloidal structures, colloidal entanglement, knotting and linking. Nematic droplets, shells, handlebodies and chiral topological structures are addressed in separate chapters. The book concludes with an extensive chapter on the photonic properties of nematic dispersions, presenting the concept of integrated soft matter photonics and discussing the concepts of nematic and chiral nematic microlasers, surface-sensitive photonic devices and smectic microfibers.The text is complemented by a large bibliography, explanatory sketches and beautiful micrographs.
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Azo Polymers - Synthesis, Functions And Applications

by Xiaogong Wang

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores functional polymers containing aromatic azo chromophores in side-chain, main-chain and other parts of their structures, known as azo polymers and which share common photoresponsive properties.
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