Functional Soft Matter I : Basic Principles

Funahashi, Masahiro (EDT)

Springer Nature（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789819201075

Full Description

This is the first volume in a two-volume textbook, Functional Soft Matter, written for students and early-career researchers to learn the scientific foundations of functional soft matter. It is followed by the second volume, Functional Soft Matter II: Analytical Methods and Topics.

This book introduces the chemical and physical foundations of functional soft matter. It covers thermal, mechanical, photochemical, photophysical, electronic, and magnetic properties. Materials discussed include liquid crystals, aromatic compounds, conjugated polymers, ionic liquids, and biomaterials. Undergraduate students and young researchers will gain a solid grounding in these materials and properties, together with current imaging applications and those anticipated in the future.

Contents

Thermodynamics and Statistics of Soft Matter.- Liquid Crystals with Orientational and Positional Orders.- Photochemistry of Functional Soft Matter.- Photophysics of Organic Dyes Molecules.- Electronic processes in organic molecular systems.- Mechanical Properties of Soft Matter.- Aromaticity for Functional Soft Materials.- Components of Biomaterials.- Magnetic Properties of Soft Matter.- Synthesis and Electronic Properties of π-Conjugated Polymers.- Ionic Liquids and Polymer Electrolytes.