Bibliography 109Soft matter: the stuff that dreams are made of / Roberto Piazza. Edition:
[English ed.]. LCCN: 2011921124 Personal name: Piazza, Roberto.
Uniform title: Materia dei sogni. English Published/Created: Dordrecht,
Netherlands; New York: Copernicus Books, c2011. Description: xiv, 279
p.: ill. (some col.); 24 cm. ISBN: 9789400705845 (pbk.: acid-free paper)
9400705840 (pbk.; acid-free paper) LC classification: QC173.458.S62
P5313 2011 Contents: 1. Overture: A special day -- 2. A life in suspense:
A big cast of little characters; When it pays to be superficial; Colloidal
Waterage, an award-winning firm; Rock and roll in suspense; Osmosis,
the breath of a dispersed world; Colloidal Lego, matter made to measure;
Softness without limit: fractal aggregates; Concrete: united by charge;
Particles spreading waves: colloidal light and colors; A very particular
particulate ink; Flying colloids: deceptive beauty of the aerosols -- 3.
Freedom in chains: Long and disordered queues; A tale of cross-links and
double-crosses; Necklaces for all tastes; Plastics: false solids with a
biddable disposition; Snake dance; Entropy: disorder or freedom?; Elastic
by chance; The secret of Mr. Fantastic; Panta rei; Nightmares for Indiana
Jones; Charged polymers: polyelectrolytes -- 4. Double-faced Janus
molecules: Striding on water: the physics of Jesus bugs; Surfactants, a
split personality; Soap bubbles: a paradise for kids and math nerds;
Micelles: when surfactants find peace; As white as can be: the science of
cleaning; A large and varied family; Questions of shape; A mischievous
break: watch the label!; Small but mighty emulsions; Black gold -- 5.
Nanoarchitecture: Kepler, Bernal, and your greengrocer; Colloidal
crystals: ordered by entropy; Glasses and gels: when hate and love yield
similar results; The world is not (just) a ball; Sandcastles and shifting
sands -- 6. Dreamtime: Concludo, ergo sum; Proteins, a matter of
mollecular origami; Little chemists; Truck drivers and intelligence;
Freemen of Flatland; Yard workers; Body builders; A (protein-rich) lunch
break; Artificial respiration; The Chieftain and his Shaman; Back to the
future -- 7. Weird words: soft matter from A to Z -- Index of common
things (or almost so). Subjects: Soft condensed matter. Notes: Includes
index. Originally published in Italian as: La materia dei sogni: sbirciatina
su un mondo di cose soffici (lettore compreso). Milano: Springer, 2010.