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Soft matter dynamics

Searching for equilibrium

Nature Materials volume 1, pages 149–150 (2002)Cite this article

Colloids, liquid crystals, granular and biological materials occurring within the realm of 'soft matter' all have slow internal dynamics. Finding the pathways that lead these systems far from their equilibrium state has triggered a multidisciplinary research effort.

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Figure 1: A 'theoretician's experiment' for testing the processes involved in granular packing of a system of rigid grains1,2.
Figure 2: Following pathways to protein folding.

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  1. *Slow Dynamics of Soft Matter The Royal Society Discussion Meeting, London, 25–26 September 2002.

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