Fall 2016
Polymer Physics
There are many good textbooks. One of the skills to be learned in graduate school is to use many books. Therefore, we will not follow any one particular book. We will take bits and pieces from more or less every one of the books listed below.
M.Rubinstein, R.Colby
Polymer Physics
Oxford University Press, 2003
M.Doi, S.F.Edwards
The Theory of Polymer Dynamics
Oxford University Press, 1986
P.-G. de Genness
Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics
Cornell University Press, 1979
T.Witten
Structured Fluids
Oxford University Press, 2004
J. des Cloizeaux, G.Jannink
Polymers in Solution
Clarendon Press Oxford, 1990
A.Y.Grosberg, A.R.Khokhlov
Statistical Physics of Macromolecules
AIP Press, 1994
A.Y.Grosberg, A.R.Khokhlov
Giant Molecules
World Scientific, 2010
Class syllabus, in pdf format
