Physics of Finely Divided Matter

I Introduction to Chemical and Physical Gels.- Covalent Macromolecular Gels.- Physical Gels and Biopolymers (in French).- Gelation of Physical Gels: The Gelatin Gels.- Clay Minerals: A Molecular Approach to Their (Fractal) Microstructure.- Structure of Random Materials.- II Microemulsions.- Ionic Microemulsions.- The Sturcture of Microemulsions.- Random Bicontinuous Microemulsion Predictions of Talmon-Prager and de Gennes Models. Structure Experiments and Determination of the Flexibility of the Interface.- III Packings.- The Relation Between the Structure of Packings of Particles and Their Properties.- Dense Packings of Hard Grains: Effects of Grain Size Distribution.- IV Percolation.- Shapes, Surfaces, and Interfaces in Percolation Clusters.- Numerical Simulation of Percolation and Other Gelation Models.- Formation of Polymer Networks: Treatment of Stochastic and Spatial Correlations Using the Mean-Field Approximation.- Dynamical Processes in Random Media.- Flicker (1/f) Noise in Percolation Networks.- V Properties of Branched Polymers and Gels.- Structure of Branched Polymers.- Size Distribution and Conformation of Branched Molecules Prepared by Cross-linking of Polymer Solutions.- Viscoelastic Effects Occurring During the Sol-Gel Transition.- Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Loss of Affineness in Deswollen Gels.- Scaling NMR Properties in Polymeric Gels.- VI Elastic and Dielectric Properties of ill-connected Media.- Scaling and Crossover Considerations in the Mechanical Properties of Amorphous Materials.- Elastic Properties of Depleted Networks and Continua.- The Elastic Properties of Fractal Structures.- Elasticity of Percolative Systems.- Electrical Properties of Percolation Clusters: Exact Results on a Deterministic Fractal.- to the Ionic Transport in Semi-Crystalline Complexes.- Williams-Watts or Cole-Cole: The Universal Response of Polymers.- VII Aggregation and Instability.- Random Kinetic Aggregation.- Scaling of Cluster Aggregation.- Dynamic Scaling in Aggregation Phenomena.- Fractal Growth of Viscous Fingers: New Experiments and Models.- Fingering Patterns in Hele-Shaw Flow.- VIII Flow and Diffusion in Porous Media.- Two-Component Transport Properties in Heterogeneous Porous Media.- Multiphase Flow in Porous Media.- Capillary and Viscous Fingering in an Etched Network.- Acoustics and Hydrodynamic Flows in Porous Media.- Dynamics of Saturated and Deformable Porous Media.- The Art of Walking on Fractal Spaces and Random Media.- Flow in Porous Media and Residence Time Distribution (in French).- IX Transitions.- Wetting of a Random Surface: Statistics of the Contact Line.- Wettability of Solid Surfaces: A Phenomenon Where Adsorption Plays a Major Role.- Binary Liquid Gels.- Phase Separation and Metastability in Binary Liquid Mixtures in Gels and Porous Media.- Index of Contributors.