Resources#

There are several books available on the topic of Soft Matter. Many set their own focus. Here is a list of books useful for the lecture.

Rob Pillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot, Hernan Garcia: Physical Biology of the Cell (Garland Science)

Jacob N. Israelachvili: Intermolecular and Surface Forces: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems (Academic Press)

Richard A.L. Jones: Soft Condensed Matter (Oxford University Press)

Michael Rubinstein, Ralph H Colby: Polymer Physics (Oxford University Press)

Jonathan Howard: Mechanics of Motor proteins and the Cytoskeleton (Sinauer Associates)

  1. Doi und S.F. Edwards: The Theory of Polymer Dynamics (Oxford Academic Press)

P.G. de Gennes and J. Prost: The Physics of Liquid Crystals (Oxford Academic Press)

P.M. Chaikin and T. Lubensky: Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press)

In addition, we will make current literature from different journals available.