Author: Frank Hollander
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: saint, flour, mathematics, notes, ecole, etã©, probabilit, lecture, xxxvii, dã‰tã©, probabilitã©s, polymers, random, ã‰cole
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 364200332X
ISBN-13: 9783642003325

Polymer chains that interact with themselves and/or with their environment are fascinating objects, displaying a range of interesting physical and chemical phenomena. The focus in this monograph is on the mathematical description of some of these phenomena, with particular emphasis on phase transitions as a function of interaction parameters, associated critical behavior and space-time scaling. Topics include: self-repellent polymers, self-attracting polymers, polymers interacting with interfaces, charged polymers, copolymers near linear or random selective interfaces, polymers interacting wit