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Science 13 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5686, p. 948
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099510
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
The Soft Sector in Physics

A review by Gerard C. L. Wong

Structured Fluids Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants
by Thomas A. Witten with Philip A. Pincus
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. 230 pp. $74.50, £39.95. ISBN 0-19-852688-1.

The authors use a scaling approach to provide a unified, pedagogical introduction to fluids containing polyatomic structures such as polymer molecules or colloidal grains ("soft condensed matter").
The reviewer is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: gclwong{at}uiuc.edu

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