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@BOOK{Dhont:11596,
      key          = {11596},
      editor       = {Dhont, Jan K. G. and Gompper, Gerhard and Richter, Dieter},
      title        = {{S}oft matter: complex materials on mesoscopic scale:
                      {L}ecture manuscripts of the 33th {IFF} winter school},
      volume       = {10},
      address      = {Jülich},
      publisher    = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
      reportid     = {PreJuSER-11596},
      isbn         = {3-89336-297-5},
      series       = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Materie und
                      Material/Matter and Materials},
      pages        = {getr. Pag.},
      year         = {2002},
      note         = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
      abstract     = {In the last years, the traditional research areas of
                      polymers, biological macromolecules, colloids, amphiphilic
                      systems and membranes, as weIl as liquid crystals have
                      merged into a new research field - $\textit{Soft Matter}$.
                      This field combines all materials, which are characterized
                      by structures on typicallength scales between nanometers and
                      micrometers. Due to the large structural length scale, the
                      number density of their translational degrees of freedom is
                      many orders of magnitude smaller than far an ardinary,
                      molecular material. This and the weak interactions between
                      the structural units, which is typically on the order of the
                      thermal energy k$_{B}$T, implies that these materials are
                      easily deformable by external farces - they are soft. As a
                      few examples we want to mention here ink, milk, blood,
                      detergents, plastics, and glue. The growing together of the
                      different, previously disjoint areas of $\textit{Soft
                      Matter}$ arises on one hand from the recognition of the same
                      underlying mechanisms in the structure and the properties of
                      these systems, and on the other hand from the combination of
                      many of these components in a single material. Examples are
                      polymer-colloid mixtur es such as ink, or the cell membranes
                      of biological ceIls, in which a large number of different,
                      cooperative components are involved. Essential aspects of
                      $\text{Soft Matter}$ are the self-assembly of the elementary
                      units to larger, complex aggregates, the cooperative
                      interplay of a large number of degrees of freedom, and the
                      important role of thermal fluctuations. Due to the large
                      range of relevant length-, time- and energy scales, and the
                      large number of cooperating degrees of freedom, the
                      experimental and theoretical investigations to gain an
                      understanding of the properties of these materials are very
                      challenging. Research in the field of $\textit{Soft Matter}$
                      is an interdisciplinary enterprise. This includes chemistry,
                      which with the synthesis of increasingly complex moleeules
                      provides the buileling blocks for new materials. Physics
                      provieles the methods to investigate the properties of soft
                      materials, anel aims at reaching a detailed understanding of
                      the connection between the molecular units and their
                      interaction, and the observed macroscopic properties. Some
                      of the investigated quest ions are derived from, or have
                      implications, for example, far pharmacology or cell and
                      molecular biology. As far as applications are concerned,
                      material science is interested in finding materials with
                      properties, which can be custom-tailored and tuned over a
                      wide range. As in previous years, the IFF winter school has
                      been organized in collaboration with several universities in
                      Nordrhein-Westfalen. We are very grateful to our colleagues
                      [...]},
      cin          = {IFF-WM},
      ddc          = {500},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB36},
      pnm          = {Kondensierte Materie},
      pid          = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK242},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/11596},
}