ABSTRACT

Soft condensed matter physics, which emerged as a distinct branch of physics in the 1990s, studies complex fluids: liquids in which structures with length scale between the molecular and the macroscopic exist. Polymers, liquid crystals, surfactant solutions, and colloids fall into this category. Physicists deal with properties of soft matter system

part |2 pages

I Soft Matter Background

part |2 pages

II Biological Applications

part |2 pages

III Experimental Techniques

chapter 15|16 pages

A practical guide to optical tweezers

chapter 16|36 pages

Solution Scattering

chapter |4 pages

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