Statistical Physics of Polymers
Statistical Physics of Polymers
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聚合物统计物理
DOI：
10.1007/s10955-005-8021-y
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
R. Podgornik
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作者：
R. Podgornik
聚合物物理学方面的书籍并不缺乏。很多都很好。因此，在写另一本书时，潜在的作者应该有一个坚定的愿景，为什么他或她的书会被潜在的读者挑选出来，而不是市场上所有其他的书。这本书是川胜俊弘教授在日本几所大学为研究生举办的一系列讲座的成果，被认为是对聚合物和复杂流体物理学当代研究中使用的概念和理论方法的介绍。它是建立在简单但必不可少的例子，聚合物的介观行为采取从各个领域的聚合物物理，说明这些概念以及先进的统计力学方法在聚合物科学。这本书因此避免了一贯使用更流行的缩放方法，虽然它当然也包含缩放分析，介绍了在高分子科学中应用的多种方法，如路径积分法、自洽场法和金兹伯格-朗道理论。它主要是一个幸运的融合了深度和广度，相对可读，并在一般自我包含。作者使用一个双层系统，其中一些更技术和/或数学概念，方程或推导被降级到单独标记（灰色）部分的文本。因此，读者通过一些技术上的错综复杂的指导，甚至可以跳过他们完全在第一次阅读。我个人觉得两层甚至三层系统相当有帮助，因为它引入了一个额外的分类所提出的材料，通常只暗示在主要划分的书成章节。这本书的主题分为五章，涵盖高斯链模型和统计的聚合物，介观结构和自洽场理论，金斯堡-朗道理论和宏观粘弹性理论的聚合物。在每一章中，作者提出了重要的概念，并介绍了在聚合物物理中经常使用的各种统计力学方法。这是通过一个深思熟虑的选择启发性的例子，允许概念以及正式的进展，整个书。虽然总的来说，这本书是自成一体的，但有一些
There is no shortage of books on polymer physics. Many of them very good. In writing yet another one, the prospective author should thus have a firm vision why his or her book would be picked up by the prospective reader when compared to all the other ones available on the market. This particular book, that grew out of a series of lectures for graduate students given by Prof. Toshihiro Kawakatsu at several universities in Japan, was conceived as an introduction to the concepts as well as theoretical methods used in contemporary research in the physics of polymers and complex fluids. It is built around simple but essential examples of mesoscale behavior of polymers taken from various areas of polymer physics that illustrate these concepts as well as advanced statistical mechanical methods used in polymer science.This book thus avoids the consistent use of the more popular scaling approach, though it of course contains also scaling analyses, in favor of an introduction to a more varied choice of methods used in advanced polymer science, such as path integral approach, self-consistent field methods and the Ginzburg-Landau theory. It is mostly a fortunate blend of depth and breadth, relatively readable and in general self contained. The author uses a two-tier system where some more technical and/or mathematical concepts, equations or derivations are relegated to separately marked (grey) parts of the text. The reader is thus coached through some technical intricacies or can even skip them altogether on first reading. I personally find the two or even three tier system quite helpful since it introduces an additional classification of the presented material that is usually only hinted at in the main division of the book into chapters. The subject matter of the book is divided into five chapters and covers Gaussian chain models and statistics of polymers, mesoscopic structures and self-consistent field theory, the Ginzburg-Landau theory and the macroscopic viscoelastic theory of polymers. In each of these chapters the author presents important concepts as well as introduces various statistical mechanical methods that are frequently used in polymer physics. This is achieved by a thoughtful choice of illuminating examples that allow for conceptual as well as formal advances throughout the book. Though in general the book is self-contained there are some