Download or read book Statistical Thermodynamics Of Surfaces, Interfaces And Membranes written by Samuel Safran and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994-04-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While these materials can sometimes be analyzed in terms of microscopic mixtures, it is often conceptually simpler to regard them as dispersions and to focus on the properties of the internal interfaces found in these systems. The basic physics centers on the properties of quasi-two-dimensional systems embedded in the three-dimensional world, thus exhibiting phenomena which do not exist in bulk materials.