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Soft Matter Books

Below you can find a list of books currently available for soft matter.

Coming soon we will bring you reviews of the latest publications.

General/Introductory

Soft Condensed Matter
by Richard A.L. Jones

Introduction to Soft Matter: Polymers, Colloids, Amphiphiles and Liquid Crystals
by Ian W. Hamley

Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction
by Maurice Kleman and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants
by Thomas A. Witten with Philip A. Pincus

Principles of Condensed Matter Physics by P. M. Chaikin and T. C. Lubensky

Liquid Crystals

Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics (Liquid Crystals Book Series)
by Peter J. Collings and Michael Hird

Liquid Crystals: Nature's Delicate Phase of Matter, Second Edition.
by Peter J. Collings

Liquid Crystals (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)
by Iam-Choon Khoo

The Physics of Liquid Crystals (International Series of Monographs on Physics)
by P. G. de Gennes and J. Prost

Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices (Wiley Series in Display Technology)
by Shin-Tson Wu and Deng-Ke Yang

Electrooptic Effects in Liquid Crystal Materials (Partially Ordered Systems) by L.M. Blinov and V.G. Chigrinov

Colloid Science

Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Second Edition: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems (Colloid Science)
by Jacob N. Israelachvili

Foundations of Colloid Science
by Robert J. Hunter

Colloid Science: Principles, Methods and Applications
by Terence Cosgrove

Principles of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (Undergraduate Chemistry Series)
by Paul C. Hiemenz and Raj Rajagopalan

Polymers

Polymer Physics (Chemistry)
by M. Rubinstein and Ralph H. Colby

The Physics of Polymers: Concepts for Understanding Their Structures and Behavior
by Gert R. Strobl

Liquid Crystalline Polymers (Cambridge Solid State Science)
by A. M. Donald, A. H. Windle, and S. Hanna

Polymer Gels and Networks
by Yoshihito Osada and Alexei Khokhlov

biomaterials

Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Molecular and Cell Biology (Scottish Graduate)
by W.C.K. Poon and David Andelman

Mechanics of the Cell
by David Boal

Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks
by Richard G. Weiss and Pierre Terech