Complex Materials in Physics and Biology

Recent years have seen surprising connections develop between physics and such research fields as mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and even economics. These connections now constitute the fascinating research area known as complex materials and systems. Statistical physics is key in exp...

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Những tác giả chính: Mallamace, F, Stanley, H. E
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-362122014-01-19T07:48:04Z Complex Materials in Physics and Biology Mallamace, F Stanley, H. E Physics Biology Recent years have seen surprising connections develop between physics and such research fields as mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and even economics. These connections now constitute the fascinating research area known as complex materials and systems. Statistical physics is key in exploring this new expanding field because it is able to show how phenomena and processes long thought to be unrelated can, by means of few unifying concepts, be given a common description. By generalizing methods previously used to order phenomena in simple systems, statistical physics enables us to understand real-world phenomena comprised of complex materials —e.g., biomolecules, polymers, granular substances, glasses, water, membranes, and interfaces— or exhibiting complex processes —e.g., dynamical arrest, chaos, turbulence, network propagation, epidemic spreading, biological functioning, and economic fluctuations. At its current stage of development, this generalizing approach is supported by two conceptual pillars: scaling and universality. For this reason scaling and universality was the conceptual frame for the CLXXVI Course of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, held from 29 June to 9 July 2010 in Varenna, Italy. The Course was organized and focused so that these topics would be discussed, and a special emphasis was placed on “complex materials in physics and biology” 2014-01-09T02:13:21Z 2014-01-09T02:13:21Z 2012 Book 978-1-61499-070-3 http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36212 en application/pdf IOS Press
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Complex Materials in Physics and Biology
description Recent years have seen surprising connections develop between physics and such research fields as mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and even economics. These connections now constitute the fascinating research area known as complex materials and systems. Statistical physics is key in exploring this new expanding field because it is able to show how phenomena and processes long thought to be unrelated can, by means of few unifying concepts, be given a common description. By generalizing methods previously used to order phenomena in simple systems, statistical physics enables us to understand real-world phenomena comprised of complex materials —e.g., biomolecules, polymers, granular substances, glasses, water, membranes, and interfaces— or exhibiting complex processes —e.g., dynamical arrest, chaos, turbulence, network propagation, epidemic spreading, biological functioning, and economic fluctuations. At its current stage of development, this generalizing approach is supported by two conceptual pillars: scaling and universality. For this reason scaling and universality was the conceptual frame for the CLXXVI Course of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, held from 29 June to 9 July 2010 in Varenna, Italy. The Course was organized and focused so that these topics would be discussed, and a special emphasis was placed on “complex materials in physics and biology”
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