Soft Condensed Matter Physics
arXiv:cond-mat/9609215 · doi:10.1016/S0038-1098(96)00718-1
Abstract
Soft condensed matter physics is the study of materials, such as fluids, liquid crystals, polymers, colloids, and emulsions, that are ``soft" to the touch. This article will review some properties, such as the dominance of entropy, that are unique to soft materials and some properties such as the interplay between broken-symmetry, dynamic mode structure, and topological defects that are common to all condensed matter systems but which are most easily studied in soft systems.
11 Pages, RevTeX, 7 postscript figures. To appear in Solid State Communications
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