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Soft condensed matter physics is the study of materials, such as fluids, liquid crystals, polymers, colloids and emulsions, that are “soft” to the touch. This article will review some properties, such as the dominance of entropy, that are unique to soft materials and some properties such as the interplay between broken-symmetry, dynamic mode structure and topological defects that are common to all condensed matter systems but which are most easily studied in soft systems.
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