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001			690089545
003			OCoLC
005			20190729104554.0
008			101205s2011 ne a 001 0 eng c
010			_a2011921124
020			_a9789400705845 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
020			_a9400705840 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
020			_z9789400705852 (e-ISBN)
020			_z9400705859 (e-ISBN)
035			_a(OCoLC)690089545
040			_aBTCTA _beng _cBTCTA _dYDXCP _dCDX _dNUI _dLML _dIQU _dEEK
041	1		_aeng _hita
042			_apcc
049			_aEY8Z
050			_aQC173.458.S62 _bP5313 2011
100	1		_aPiazza, Roberto.
240	1	0	_aMateria dei sogni. _lEnglish.
245	1	0	_aSoft matter : _bthe stuff that dreams are made of / _cRoberto Piazza.
250			_a[English ed.]
260			_aDordrecht, Netherlands ; _aNew York : _bCopernicus Books, _cc2011.
300			_axiv, 279 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
500			_aOriginally published in Italian as: La materia dei sogni : sbirciatina su un mondo di cose soffici (lettore compreso). Milano : Springer, 2010.
505	2		_a1. Overture: A special day -- 2. A life in suspense : A big cast of little characters ; When it pays to be superficial ; Colloidal Waterage, an award-winning firm ; Rock and roll in suspense ; Osmosis, the breath of a dispersed world ; Colloidal Lego, matter made to measure ; Softness without limit: fractal aggregates ; Concrete: united by charge ; Particles spreading waves: colloidal light and colors ; A very particular particulate ink ; Flying colloids: deceptive beauty of the aerosols -- 3. Freedom in chains : Long and disordered queues ; A tale of cross-links and double-crosses ; Necklaces for all tastes ; Plastics: false solids with a biddable disposition ; Snake dance ; Entropy: disorder or freedom? ; Elastic by chance ; The secret of Mr. Fantastic ; Panta rei ; Nightmares for Indiana Jones ; Charged polymers: polyelectrolytes -- 4. Double-faced Janus molecules : Striding on water: the physics of Jesus bugs ; Surfactants, a split personality ; Soap bubbles: a paradise for kids and math nerds ; Micelles: when surfactants find peace ; As white as can be: the science of cleaning ; A large and varied family ; Questions of shape ; A mischievous break: watch the label! ; Small but mighty emulsions ; Black gold -- 5. Nanoarchitecture : Kepler, Bernal, and your greengrocer ; Colloidal crystals: ordered by entropy ; Glasses and gels: when hate and love yield similar results ; The world is not (just) a ball ; Sandcastles and shifting sands -- 6. Dreamtime : Concludo, ergo sum ; Proteins, a matter of mollecular origami ; Little chemists ; Truck drivers and intelligence ; Freemen of Flatland ; Yard workers ; Body builders ; A (protein-rich) lunch break ; Artificial respiration ; The Chieftain and his Shaman ; Back to the future -- 7. Weird words: soft matter from A to Z -- Index of common things (or almost so)
650		0	_aSoft condensed matter.
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949			_aQC173.458 .S62 P5313 2011 _wLC _c1 _hEY8Z _i33039001218857
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