Morphology of Surfaces in Mesoscopic Polymers, Surfactants, Electrons, or Reaction–Diffusion Systems: Methods, Simulations, and Measurements
- I. Prigogine4,5,
- Stuart A. Rice6
Published Online: 28 APR 2002
DOI: 10.1002/0471264318.ch3
Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Book Title
Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 121
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How to Cite
Aksimentiev, A., Fiałkowski, M. and Hołyst, R. (2002) Morphology of Surfaces in Mesoscopic Polymers, Surfactants, Electrons, or Reaction–Diffusion Systems: Methods, Simulations, and Measurements, in Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 121 (eds I. Prigogine and S. A. Rice), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA. doi: 10.1002/0471264318.ch3
Editor Information
- 4
Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
- 5
International Solvay Institutes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- 6
Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Publication History
- Published Online: 28 APR 2002
- Published Print: 4 JAN 2002
Book Series:
Book Series Editors:
- I. Prigogine4,5,
- Stuart A. Rice6
Series Editor Information
- 4
Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
- 5
International Solvay Institutes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- 6
Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780471205043
Online ISBN: 9780471264316
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- surfaces;
- mesoscopic systems;
- morphology;
- surfactants;
- electrons;
- reaction–diffusion systems;
- methods;
- simulations;
- measurements
Summary
In this chapter the authors discuss systems with internal surfaces, ordered surfaces, topological transformations, and dynamical scaling. In Section II the authors show specific examples of mesoscopic systems with special attention devoted to the surfaces in the system—that is, periodic surfaces in surfactant systems, periodic surfaces in diblock copolymers, bicontinuous disordered interfaces in spinodally decomposing blends, ordered charge density wave patterns in electron liquids, and dissipative structures in reaction–diffusion systems. Section III covers the theory of morphological measures, including the Euler characteristic and the Gaussian and mean curvatures.