A general and introductory survey of foams, emulsions and cellular
materials. Foams and emulsions are illustrations of some fundamental
concepts in statistical thermodynamics, rheology, elasticity and the
physics and chemistry of divided media and interfaces. They also give
rise to some of the most beautiful geometrical shapes and tilings,
ordered or disordered.
The chapters are grouped into sections having fairly loose boundaries.
Each chapter is intelligible alone, but cross referencing means that the
few concepts that may not be familiar to the reader can be found in
other chapters in the book.
Audience: Research students, researchers and teachers in physics,
physical chemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering and
geometry