Giant molecules: here, there, and everywhere
This book describes the basic facts, concepts and ideas of polymer physics in simple, yet scientifically accurate, terms. In both scientific and historic contexts, the book shows how the subject of polymers is fascinating, as it is behind most of the wonders of living cell machinery as well as most of the newly developed materials. No mathematics is used in the book beyond modest high school algebra and a bit of freshman calculus, yet very sophisticated concepts are introduced and explained, ra…
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- Full title :Giant molecules : here, there, and everywhere / Alexander Y. Grosberg, Alexei R. Khokhlov ; foreword by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
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This book describes the basic facts, concepts and ideas of polymer physics in simple, yet scientifically accurate, terms. In both scientific and historic contexts, the book shows how the subject of polymers is fascinating, as it is behind most of the wonders of living cell machinery as well as most of the newly developed materials. No mathematics is used in the book beyond modest high school algebra and a bit of freshman calculus, yet very sophisticated concepts are introduced and explained, ranging from scaling and reptations to protein folding and evolution. The new edition includes an extended section on polymer preparation methods, discusses knots formed by molecular filaments, and presents new and updated materials on such contemporary topics as single molecule experiments with DNA or polymer properties of proteins and their roles in biological evolution.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):World Scientific
- Place of Publication:Hackensack, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 322 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789812839237, 9812839232, 1283143631, 9781283143639, 9786613143631, 6613143634
- oclc:ocn738439223
- LC Classification:QD381
- Dewey Decimal:547.7
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Physics in the world of giant molecules -- 2. What does a polymer molecule look like? -- 3. How are polymers made -- 4. What kinds of polymer substances are there? -- 5. Polymers in nature -- 6. The mathematics of a simple polymer coil -- 7. The physics of high elasticity -- 8. The problem of excluded volume -- 9. Coils and globules -- 10. Globular proteins and folding -- 11. To knot or not to knot -- 12. Dynamics of polymer fluids -- 13. The mathematics of complicated polymer structures: Fractals -- 14. Polymers, evolution, and the origin of life.
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