Description: Covering colloids, polymers, surfactant phases, emulsions, and granular media, this book covers the advancing field of systems driven out of equilibrium. It contains introductions in soft condensed matter and statistical physics to experimental techniques, polymers, rheology, colloids, computer simulation and surfactants.
Review Quotes: "In the book are collected papers in which the main ideas of soft-matter and fragile-matter physics are elucidated, and eloquent examples of systems investigated experimentally, theoretically, and in computer simulations are described. The papers are written by distinguished experts ... Overall, the book is a nice introduction to soft-matter and fragile-matter physics. The book is (as the School was) addressed first of all to newcomers to this fascinating field. But even experienced experts can find new results and ideas in this book. In addition, university lecturers can easily use the review papers to help them in their job because the papers are arranged in a nice didactic fashion." -Oleksandr Bakai, High Temperatures-High Pressures "... an excellent book." -Rheology Bulletin