Soft Matter under Exogenic Impacts

This book is unique in supplying a comprehensive presentation of high pressures, negative pressures, random constraints and strong electric field exogenic (external) impacts on various soft matter systems. These are: (i) critical liquids, (ii) glass formers, such as supercooled liquids including water, polymers and resins, (iii) liquid crystals and (iv) bio-liquids.

The book is an excellent guide in this novel and still puzzling research area. Besides new results, the identification of new types of physical behavior, new technological materials, ultimate verification of condensed and soft matter physics models, new applications in geophysics, biophysics, biotechnology, are all discussed in this book.

The book comes as a result from the ARW NATO brainstorming discussion in Odessa, Ukraine (8-12 Oct. 2005). It contains 31 papers prepared by key specialists in the field.

University departments and research institutes in materials sciences, chemistry, physics, biophysics, physical chemistry and thermodynamics, geophysics, statistical physics, molecular physics, polymer physics and chemistry., specialists in supercooled liquids glasses, critical phenomena and phase transitions, polymers and biopolymers, water: structure, dynamics, thermodynamics and techno and environment, liquid crystals., specialists in the application of high pressures, negative pressure, random constraints, broad band dielectric spectroscopy and the nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy., complex and soft matter systems, theoretical and experimental and application issues., degree level students in modern materials engineering, statistical physics, polymer physics and chemistry, liquid crystals physics, chemical physics, biophysics, geophysics and environment protection courses