Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity (eBook)

Stefano Antonio Mezzasalma (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
248 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-055798-4 (ISBN)

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Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity illustrates the recent picture of statistical physics of polymers and polymer solutions that emerges from some paradigms of contemporary science joint together. Among its principal aims are discussing the consequences of a novel self-diffusion theory, which benefits from an extension towards relativistic-like principles, and the generalization of usual concepts met in polymer science in terms of geometry alone. The monograph gives the whole fundamentals necessary to handle the view proposed, which is set in the final chapters. All the formers see about to provide the reader with a comprehensive treatation of the necessary fundamentals of classical, relativistic, quantum and statistical mechanics. Among the most important mechanical theories ever developed, a chapter on the Brownian movement and another on macromolecules prepare the ground that is specific to face universality and scaling behaviors in polymer solutions. The scope of the book is therefore two-fold: On the one hand, it wishes to involve the readers and scholars into a new research on polymer physics and chemistry. On the other, to get close chemical physicists and physical chemists to disciplines which, traditionally, are far from their direct fields of interest.

• Cross-disciplinarity
• Novelty
• Potentiality

S.A. Mezzasalma is a contract professor and researcher at the University of Trieste and, in particular, a theoretical chemical physicist of soft condensed matter. His main research activity covered a number of topics in macromolecular, colloid and interface sciences, producing several tens of single-authored publications. Author of a recent book, 'Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity?, published within the Interface Science and Technology Series of Academic Press & Elsevier (2008). He lately started to work on several issues in nanoscience and supramolecular chemistry, and collaborate within the EC Advanced Grant 'Carbonanobridge?, at the cutting edge between chemical and biological physics.

Inhalt

Cover 
1 
Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity 4
Copyright page 5
TOC$Contents 
6 
Foreword 10
CH$Chapter 1. Classical and Relativistic Mechanics 12
1. Historical Summary 13
2. Analytical Mechanics 19
3. Special Relativity 26
4. Relativistic Mechanics 41
5. General Relativity 51
6. Particular Solutions and Reference Frames 76
Appendix A 85
Readings 86
CH$Chapter 2. The Special Theory of Brownian Relativity 90
1. Brownian Motion and Diffusion (Notes) 90
2. Postulates of Brownian Relativity: Ideal Polymer and Universality 119
3. Real Polymer in a Minkowskian Fluid 136
Readings 144
CH$Chapter 3. The General Theory of Brownian Relativity 148
1. Geometric Approach to Polymers in Solution 148
2. Statistical Gauge and Electromagnetic Analogy 173
3. Outlook and Notes 179
Readings 180
CH$Chapter 4. The Covariant Scaling of Probability 184
1. Vineyard's Van Hove Distribution Function 185
2. From Molecule to Macromolecule: True Self-Avoiding Walk Polymer 189
3. From Macromolecule to Molecule: Turbulence in Liquids 197
Readings 208
CH$Chapter 5. Fundamental Ideas for a Shape Mechanics 210
1. Brownian Simultaneity and Uncertainty Relation 211
2. Lorentz-Poincaré Transformation: A Toy Model for Geometry 213
3. The Static Uncertainty Relation 215
4. Materiality and Geometry of Energy 218
5. n-Molecular Systems and Pairwise Potential 222
6. The Shape-Mechanical Issue 227
7. Outlook and Notes 238
Readings 240
IDX$Subject Index 242

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.7.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Organische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-055798-8 / 0080557988
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-055798-4 / 9780080557984