- Preface: Matter, Are You There? / Jean-Claude Carrière
- Prologue: Sensitive Matter, Divine Matter?
- Introduction: Let Us Praise Sensitivity, a Unifying Virtue
- Conciliation: The Art of Resolving Conflicts
- 1. Peacemaking among Enemies… Easy When a Mediator Is Involved
- Blend or Separate?
- Conciliation
- No-Fail Mayonnaise
- A Very Discreet Peacemaker
- Beyond Mayonnaise
- 2. Dissolving Fat in Water: A Question of Organization
- 3. Don’t Mix, Associate!
- Those Were the Days
- The Psychology of a School of Fish
- Molecular Anatomy
- Sequestering a School of Fish
- Windows Would Do Well to Reflect
- Revelation: The Little Additive That Changes Everything
- 4. Rubber: A Story Nearly Cut Short
- Exploring the Amazon
- Charles Goodyear: A Human Adventure
- Beyond Rubber
- Polywater: A Case of Pathological Science
- 5. The Firefighter’s Jet Stream: Reach for the Sky
- 6. The Glamorous Affair of Gas and Liquid
- From Grape Juice to a Champagne Glass: This Way, Please!
- The Role of Interfaces
- Certified Foamability
- Living on the Edge
- Beyond Champagne
- 7. Down with Foam!
- 8. Breathing: An Unseen Triumph
- What Is the Problem?
- The History of Alveolar Pressure
- Not Too Much, Not Too Little
- Pulmonary Surfactant: A Multifunctional Material
- 9. Familiarity and Distance: Colloids
- Being Divided Brings Them Together
- The Scribe’s Task
- Ménage à Trois
- Neither Too Little nor Too Much
- Additional Instructions
- Antithesis
- Postscript
- 10. Sensitive Cooking
- Barcelona, Carrer del Carme
- Contain
- Stabilize
- Coat
- Thicken
- 1. Peacemaking among Enemies… Easy When a Mediator Is Involved
- Adaptation: Responding to the Environment
- 11. A Cell, Though Not a Prison
- Two or Three Things We Know about It
- Cellular Traffic
- The Membrane Has No Lack of Potential
- 12. Putting Drug Delivery on Controlled Release
- Meeting Up, but Where and When?
- Encapsulation-Decapsulation: Liposomes
- Swelling-Deswelling: Excitable Polymers
- Best of Luck!
- 13. Perpetual Sensitivity: Granular Matter
- Age-Old Matter, Fresh Topic
- Complex Matter, but Why?
- The Paradox of the Missing Mass
- Key to the Vault of Sensitivity
- 14. Liquefaction of the “Blood” of St. Januarius
- Sensitive “Blood”: Imitations
- Complex Fluids: A Feast of Sensitivities
- Transformation by Touch
- The “Blood” of St. Januarius: A Yield-Stress Fluid?
- Natural versus Supernatural
- Premeditation versus Chance
- 11. A Cell, Though Not a Prison
- Epilogue
- Bonus Tracks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index of Sensitive Materials
- Index of Proper Names
Sensitive Matter
Foams, Gels, Liquid Crystals, and Other Miracles
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Publication Date: 04/10/2012
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