Colloid and Molecular Electro-Optics

These papers represent the latest results of research in a topic which is becoming of major interest to chemists and biologists as well as physicists. Since 1974, the use of the time-dependent electro-optical effect, and a variety of light scattering spectroscopic techniques, have provided increasingly sophisticated information on the behaviour and properties of molecules and particles in solution. These techniques can give information on high-field effects, macromolecules, gels, liquid crystals, membranes, colloidal particles, and similar materials. Being nondestructive, these techniques are of particular interest to biologists. Therefore, this book can be used as a reference source for researchers in the physics and chemistry of these materials, as well as biologists studying their physical behaviour.