Physics of Finely Divided Matter Proceedings of the Winter School, Les Houches, France, March 25–April 5, 1985

The Second Winter School on the "~hysics of Finely Divided Matter" was held at the Centre de Physique des Houches from 25 March to 5 April 1985. This meeting brought together experts from the areas of gels and porous media. People with different backgrounds - chemists, physicists - from un...

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Other Authors: Boccara, N. (Editor), Daoud, M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1985, 1985
Edition:1st ed. 1985
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Flicker (1/f) Noise in Percolation Networks
  • V Properties of Branched Polymers and Gels
  • Structure of Branched Polymers
  • Size Distribution and Conformation of Branched Molecules Prepared by Cross-linking of Polymer Solutions
  • Viscoelastic Effects Occurring During the Sol-Gel Transition
  • Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Loss of Affineness in Deswollen Gels
  • Scaling NMR Properties in Polymeric Gels
  • VI Elastic and Dielectric Properties of ill-connected Media
  • Scaling and Crossover Considerations in the Mechanical Properties of Amorphous Materials
  • Elastic Properties of Depleted Networks and Continua
  • The Elastic Properties of Fractal Structures
  • Elasticity of Percolative Systems
  • Electrical Properties of Percolation Clusters: Exact Results on a Deterministic Fractal
  • to the Ionic Transport in Semi-Crystalline Complexes
  • Williams-Watts or Cole-Cole: The Universal Response of Polymers
  • VII Aggregation and Instability
  • Random Kinetic Aggregation
  • I Introduction to Chemical and Physical Gels
  • Covalent Macromolecular Gels
  • Physical Gels and Biopolymers (in French)
  • Gelation of Physical Gels: The Gelatin Gels
  • Clay Minerals: A Molecular Approach to Their (Fractal) Microstructure
  • Structure of Random Materials
  • II Microemulsions
  • Ionic Microemulsions
  • The Sturcture of Microemulsions
  • Random Bicontinuous Microemulsion Predictions of Talmon-Prager and de Gennes Models. Structure Experiments and Determination of the Flexibility of the Interface
  • III Packings
  • The Relation Between the Structure of Packings of Particles and Their Properties
  • Dense Packings of Hard Grains: Effects of Grain Size Distribution
  • IV Percolation
  • Shapes, Surfaces, and Interfaces in Percolation Clusters
  • Numerical Simulation of Percolation and Other Gelation Models
  • Formation of Polymer Networks: Treatment of Stochastic and Spatial Correlations Using the Mean-Field Approximation
  • Dynamical Processes in Random Media
  • Scaling of Cluster Aggregation
  • Dynamic Scaling in Aggregation Phenomena
  • Fractal Growth of Viscous Fingers: New Experiments and Models
  • Fingering Patterns in Hele-Shaw Flow
  • VIII Flow and Diffusion in Porous Media
  • Two-Component Transport Properties in Heterogeneous Porous Media
  • Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
  • Capillary and Viscous Fingering in an Etched Network
  • Acoustics and Hydrodynamic Flows in Porous Media
  • Dynamics of Saturated and Deformable Porous Media
  • The Art of Walking on Fractal Spaces and Random Media
  • Flow in Porous Media and Residence Time Distribution (in French)
  • IX Transitions
  • Wetting of a Random Surface: Statistics of the Contact Line
  • Wettability of Solid Surfaces: A Phenomenon Where Adsorption Plays a Major Role
  • Binary Liquid Gels
  • Phase Separation and Metastability in Binary Liquid Mixtures in Gels and Porous Media
  • Index of Contributors