The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

The colloidal domain is characterized by the dimensions of its constituents in the range from
several nanometers to micrometers. Often, these individual entities are organized in …

This book aims to provide an introduction to dynamical systems with multiple time scales. As
in any overview book, several topics are covered only quite briefly. My aim was to focus on …

Optical microscopy has for centuries been a key tool to study living cells with minimum
invasiveness. The advent of single molecule techniques over the past two decades has …

Random walk is a fundamental concept with applications ranging from quantum physics to
econometrics. Remarkably, one specific model of random walks appears to be ubiquitous …

BACKGROUND Colloids consist of solid or liquid particles, each about a few hundred
nanometers in size, dispersed in a fluid and kept suspended by thermal fluctuations …

This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

Effective medium theory dates back to the early days of the theory of electricity. Faraday
1837 proposed one of the earliest models for a composite metal-insulator dielectric, and …

Over the last two decades, anomalous diffusion processes in which the mean squares
variance grows slower or faster than that in a Gaussian process have found many …

The band structure of matter determines its properties. In solids, it is typically mapped with
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, in which the momentum and the energy of …