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A general and introductory survey of foams, emulsions and cellular materials. Foams and emulsions are illustrations of some fundamental concepts in statistical thermodynamics, rheology, elasticity and the physics and chemistry of divided media and interfaces. They also give rise to some of the most beautiful geometrical shapes and tilings, ordered or disordered.
The chapters are grouped into sections having fairly loose boundaries. Each chapter is intelligible alone, but cross referencing means that the few concepts that may not be familiar to the reader can be found in other chapters...

This book shows how the concept of geometrical frustration can be used to elucidate the structure and properties of nonperiodic materials such as metallic glasses, quasicrystals, amorphous semiconductors and complex liquid crystals. Examples and idealized models introduce geometric frustration, illustrating how it can be used to identify ordered and defective regions in real materials. The book goes on to show how these principles can also be used to model physical properties of materials, in particular specific volume, melting, the structure factor and the glass transition. Final chapters...

This book shows how the concept of geometrical frustration can be used to elucidate the structure and properties of nonperiodic materials such as metallic glasses, quasicrystals, amorphous semiconductors and complex liquid crystals. Examples and idealized models introduce geometric frustration, illustrating how it can be used to identify ordered and defective regions in real materials. The book goes on to show how these principles can also be used to model physical properties of materials, in particular specific volume, melting, the structure factor and the glass transition. Final chapters...

Cet ouvrage reunit dans un meme cadre conceptuel les structures d'objets nanoscopiques aussi divers que les films toriques construits par des molecules amphiphiles ou des phospholipides et les phases ou fibres torsadees construites par des molecules de cristaux liquides, des polymeres ou des macromolecules biologiques. Des objets non seulement divers mais aussi etonnamment complexes dans la mesure ou les assemblages de leurs molecules y presentent localement de forts ecarts a tout ordre regulier. Ces ecarts a l'ordre, ou defauts, jouent un role essentiel dans le choix d'une forme...