9789812387608 | 2 edition (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2004), cover price $82.00 |
About this edition: This invaluable book explores the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, differential geometry, field theory and critical phenomena.