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Book SynopsisDefying the classical definitions of solids and liquids, complex fluids include polymers, colloids, emulsions, foams, gels, liquid crystals, surfactants, and other materials that form flowable microstructures. They are vital to industries that produce polymers (e.g., plastic packaging), colloids (paint), foods (ketchup), and consumer products (toothpaste and shampoo), and are also used in countless other products manufactured by the petroleum, microelectronics, and pharmaceutical industries. The first advanced textbook on this subject, The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive introduction to these fascinating and important substances. It offers an up-to-date synopsis of the relationship between the microstructure of complex fluids and their mechanical and flow properties, and also emphasizes the similarities and differences among the various types of complex fluids. Easy to read, it includes over 350 illustrations, extensive literatur
Table of ContentsPart I: Fundamentals ; 1. Introduction to Complex Fluids ; 1.3 Rheological Measurements and Properties ; 1.4 Kinematics and Stress ; 1.5 Flow, Slip, and Yield ; 1.6 Structural Probes of Complex Fluids ; 1.7 Computational Methods ; 1.8 The Stress Tensor ; 1.9 Summary ; 2. Basic Forces ; 2.1 Intoduction ; 2.3 Van der Waals Interactions ; 2.4 Electrostatic Interactions ; 2.5 Hydrogen-Bonding, Hydrophobic, and Other Interactions ; 2.6 Summary ; Part II: Polymers, Glassy Liquids, and Polymer Gels ; 3. Polymers ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Equilibrium Properties ; 3.3 Intrinsic Viscosity and Overlap Concentration ; 3.4 Elementary Molecular Theories ; 3.5 Linear Viscoelasticity and Time-Temperature Superposition ; 3.6 The Rheology of Dilute Polymer Solutions ; 3.7 The Rheology of Entangled Polymers ; 3.8 Summary ; 4. Glassy Liquids ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Phenomenology of the Glass Transition ; 4.3 Free-Volume Theories ; 4.4 Entropy Theories ; 4.5 Nonlinear Relaxation and Aging ; 4.6 Mode-Coupling Theory and Colloidal Hard-Sphere Glasses ; 4.7 Analog Models ; 4.8 Rheology of Glassy Liquids ; 4.9 Summary ; 5. Polymer Gels ; 5.1 Introduction ; 5.2 Gelation Theoies ; 5.3 Rheology of Chemical Gels and Near-Gels ; 5.4 Rheology of Physical Gels ; 5.5 Summary ; Part III: Suspensions ; 6. Particulate Suspensions ; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 Hard, and Slightly Deformable Spheres ; 6.3 Nonspherical Particles ; 6.4 Electrically Charged Particles ; 6.5 Particles in Viscoelastic Liquids: "Filled Melts" ; 6.6 Summary ; 7. Particulate Gels ; 7.1 Introduction ; 7.2 Particle Interactions in Suspensions ; 7.3 Rheology of Particulate Gels ; 7.4 Summary ; 8. Electro- and Magneto-Responsive Suspensions ; 8.1 Introduction ; 8.2 Electrorheological Fluids ; 8.3 Magnetorheological Fluids ; 8.4 Ferrofluids ; 8.5 Summary ; 9. Foams, Emulsions, and Blends ; 9.1 Introduction ; 9.2 Emulsion Preparation ; 9.3 Rheology of Emulsions and Immiscible Blends ; 9.4 Structure and Coarsening of Foams ; 9.5 Rheology of Foams ; 9.6 Summary ; Part IV: Liquid Crystals and Self-Assembling Fluids ; 10. Liquid Crystals ; 10.1 Introduction ; 10.2 Nematics ; 10.3 Cholesterics: Chiral Nemantics ; 10.4 Smectics ; 10.5 Summary ; 11. Liquid Crystalline Polymers ; 11.1 Introduction ; 11.2 Molecular Characteristics of Liquid Crystalline Polymers ; 11.3 Flow Properties of Nematic LCP's ; 11.4 Molecular Dynamics of Polymeric Nematics ; 11.5 Molecular Theory for the Rheology of Polymeric Nematics ; 11.6 Summary ; 12. Surfactant Solutions ; 12.1 Introduction ; 12.2 Methods of Predicting Microstructures ; 12.3 Disordered Micellar Solutions ; 12.4 Surfactant Liquid Crystals ; 12.5 Summary ; 13. Block Copolymers ; 13.1 Introduction ; 13.2 Thermodynamics of Block Copolymers ; 13.3 Rheology and Shear-Aligning of Block Copolymers ; 13.4 Summary ; Appendix: Momentum-Balance Equations in the Absence of Inertia
