Soft matter under exogenic impacts

Sylwester J. Rzoska, Victor A. Mazur1402058713, 9781402058714, 9781402058721, 9781402058707

‘Soft Matter Under Exogenic Impacts’ is fairly unique in supplying a comprehensive presentation of high pressures, negative pressures, random constraints and strong electric field exogenic (external) impacts on various soft matter systems. These are: (i) critical liquids, (ii) glass formers, such as supercooled liquids including water, polymers and resins, (iii) liquid crystals and (iv) bio-liquids. It is, because of this, an excellent guide in this novel and still puzzling research area. Besides new results, the identification of new types of physical behavior, new technological materials, ultimate verification of condensed and soft matter physics models, new applications in geophysics, biophysics, biotechnology, are all discussed in this book.

‘Soft Matter Under Exogenic Impacts’ comes as a result from the ARW NATO brainstorming discussion in Odessa, Ukraine (8-12 Oct. 2005). It contains 31 papers prepared by key specialists in the field, which include amongst others: H. E. Stanley (USA), K. L. Ngai (USA), C. M. Roland (USA), M. A. Anisimov (USA), G. P. Johari (Canada), M.-C. Bellisent (France), A. R. Imre (Hungary), G. Floudas (Greece), Th. Kraska (Germany), A. Chalyi (Ukraine), E. E. Ustjuzhanin (Russia), J. L. Tamarit (Spain) and S. Kralj (Slovenia).

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Table of contents :
TABLE OF CONTENTS……Page 6
Part I: General Issues……Page 15
Asteroid impact in the black sea; a black scenario……Page 16
The conductivity of hydrogen in extreme conditions……Page 24
Dynamic crossover and liquid–liquid critical point in the TIP5P model of water……Page 37
Amorphization of ice by collapse under pressure, vibrational properties, and ultraviscous water at 1 GPa……Page 48
Coupled ordering in soft matter: competition of mesoscales and dynamics of coupled fluctuations……Page 88
All standard theories and models of glass transition appear to be inadequate: missing some essential physics……Page 104
Part II: Glass forming liquids……Page 125
Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy and atomistic modeling – effective tools for the disordered condensed systems characterization……Page 126
Segmental and chain dynamics in polymers……Page 145
Isobaric and isochoric properties of glass-formers……Page 153
Influence of Differences in Molecular structure on Behavior of α and β Relaxation Processes in Diisooctyl Phthalate and Diisooctyl Maleate……Page 160
Orientationally disordered glassy phases……Page 171
Part III: Liquid Crystals……Page 198
Glassy dynamics of rod-like liquid crystals: the influence of molecular structure……Page 199
Ordering effect on dynamics in glass-forming mixture of liquid crystals……Page 210
Nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy near smectic A–smectic C* transition in ferroelectric liquid crystal DOBAMBC……Page 224
Confined liquid crystaline 5CB in 2D Thermodynamic Space – Preliminary Dielectric Relaxation Study……Page 237
Annihilation of defects in liquid crystals……Page 247
Waves at the nematic–isotropic interface: nematic–non-nematic and polymer–nematic mixtures……Page 260
Part IV: Critical Liquids……Page 276
Global phase behavior of supercritical water – environmentally significant organic chemicals mixtures……Page 277
Properties of water near its critical point……Page 295
Fluctuational equation of state and slopes of critical curves near the critical point of solvent……Page 313
Combined models of thermophysical properties along the coexistence curve……Page 332
Intermolecular potential for simple liquids and gases in the high pressure region……Page 346
Homogeneous nucleation and growth from highly supersaturated vapor by molecular dynamics simulation……Page 358
How to generate and measure negative pressure in liquids?……Page 385
Indirect methods to study liquid–liquid miscibility in binary liquids under negative pressure……Page 395
Part V: Bio-liquids and related problems……Page 405
Critical properties of soft matter at restricted geometry as emerging problem: fundamentals and biological applications……Page 406
Water–biomolecule systems under extreme conditions: from confinement to pressure effects……Page 420
Recent progresses in understanding of water interacting with biomolecules, and inside living cells and tissues……Page 439
Self-assembly of polypeptides. The effect of thermodynamic confinement……Page 453
Coulomb liquids under electric field – application of a new computer simulation method……Page 462
Solvation effects in near-critical polar fluids……Page 471