Hansen Solubility Parameters

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Authored by the father of the concept, Hansen Solubility Parameters provides new tables of previously unpublished correlations and parameters. The author illuminates his text with practical examples related to coatings, biological systems, pigments, and fibers, and takes a general approach that makes this reference ideal for predicting compatibility, adsorption on surfaces, orientation toward materials of similar affinities (self-assembly), and other phenomena associated with solubility and affinity.

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Physical Chemistry of Polymer Solutions
K. Kamide , and T. Dobashi
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ASIN: 0444894306

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This book is mainly concerned with building a narrow but secure ladder which polymer chemists or engineers can climb from the primary level to an advanced level without great difficulty (but by no means easily, either).

This book describes some fundamentally important topics, carefully chosen, covering subjects from thermodynamics to molecular weight and its distribution effects. For help in self-education the book adopts a "Questions and Answers" format. The mathematical derivation of each equation is shown in detail. For further reading, some original references are also given.

Numerous physical properties of polymer solutions are known to be significantly different from those of low molecular weight solutions. The most probable explanation of this obvious discrepancy is the large molar volume ratio of solute to solvent together with the large number of consecutive segments that constitute each single molecule of the polymer chains present as solute. Thorough understanding of the physical chemistry of polymer solutions requires some prior mathematical background in its students. In the original literature, detailed mathematical derivations of the equations are universally omitted for the sake of space-saving and simplicity. In textbooks of polymer science only extremely rough schemes of the theories and then the final equations are shown. As a consequence, the student cannot learn, unaided, the details of the theory in which he or she is interested from the existing textbooks; however, without a full understanding of the theory, one cannot analyze actual experimental data to obtain more basic and realistic physical quantities. In particular, if one intends to apply the theories in industry, accurate understanding and ability to modify the theory are essential.

Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Fluid Mechanics (Dynamics of Polymer Liquids Vol. 1)

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Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Fluid Mechanics (Dynamics of Polymer Liquids Vol. 1)
R. Byron Bird , and Ole Hassager
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The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids (Topics in Chemical Engineering)
Understanding Rheology (Topics in Chemical Engineering)
Transport Phenomena

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Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Second Edition Volume 2: Kinetic Theory R. Byron Bird, Charles F. Curtiss, Robert C. Armstrong and Ole Hassager Volume Two deals with the molecular aspects of polymer rheology and fluid dynamics. It is the only book currently available dealing with kinetic theory and its relation to nonlinear rheological properties. Considerable emphasis is given to the connection between kinetic theory results and experimental data. The second edition contains new material on the basis for molecular modeling, the application of phase-space theory to dilute solutions, kinetic theory of melts and melt mixtures, and network theories. 1987 (0 471-80244-1) 450 pp.

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Indispensable reference.......2003-08-22

This is a good starting point for the reader interested in rheology or polymer dynamics. Many definitions and concepts widely used in the field of rheology of complex fluids can be found in this work. One of the introductory chapters is dedicated to qualitatively explain the most counter intuitive phenomena found in polymeric liquids. The rest of the book is primarily devoted to describe a variety of models, frequently illustrated with experimental data. The models are provided in a self-contained fashion, facilitating their use nad understanding.
Vol. I is a detailed introduction to rheology, with plenty of exercises. Explains in a clear way a variety of concepts such as material functions, and many classical models. Contains useful tables and appendices.
Vol. II also has good appendices and tables. It goes in detail through several microscopic models of polymers, starting from the simplest ones. Chapters are of increasing difficulty, getting more and more technical through the book, a good idea is to work the problems and exercises in detail. After this process is likely that the reader will be able to understand many polymer rheology papers.

Models for Polymeric and Anisotropic Liquids (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Models for Polymeric and Anisotropic Liquids (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Martin Kröger
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ASIN: 3540262105

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Models should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. For the physics of polymeric liquids, whose relevant lengths and time scales are out of reach for first principles calculations, this means that we have to choose a minimum set of sufficiently detailed descriptors such as architecture (linear, ring, branched), connectivity, semiflexibility, stretchability, excluded volume, and hydrodynamic interaction. These 'universal' fluids allow the prediction of material properties under external flow- or electrodynamic fields, the results being expressed in terms of reference units, specific for any particular chosen material. This book provides an introduction to the kinetic theory and computer simulation methods needed to handle these models and to interpret the results. Also included are a number of sample applications and computer codes.

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Book review published in Applied Rheology - international journal.......2006-02-14

This new volume of Springer's successful series 'Lecture Notes in Physics' presents a variety of simple models for the structure and dynamics of complex fluids. Special emphasize is paid to the finitely extendable nonlinear elastic (FENE) spring model of polymeric fluids and several of its extensions. Suspensions of elongated particles, liquid crystals and ferrofluids are also treated, however in a rather compressed manner. Most, if not all, of the examples given in the book are taken from the author's collaborative work.

This well-organized book is divided into two parts. Part I introduces and illustrates the different models and discusses their structural and dynamical properties. Part II provides theoretical background on the topic, such as tensor calculus, methods and sample codes, in order to help the reader to do some analytical calculations himself as well as to start his or her own simulations.

Chapter 1 starts with an introduction about the aims and projects of the book and ends with a very valuable section- by-section summary. This summary provides an easy access to the different topics dealt within the book. Moreover, it can be used as a guideline through the book for those readers that are interested only in very specific aspects. The classical FENE dumbbell model of dilute polymer solutions introduced in the beginning of Chapter 2 is the first of 15 models presented in part I of the book. Thereafter, an extension of the FENE dumbbell model to the semi-dilute regime by introducing a mean-field interaction potential is discussed. The second type of models dealt within the book (chapter 3) are FENE chain models of dilute polymer solutions. Hydrodynamic interactions are introduced and some details on their numerical implementation in Brownian dynamics simulations are given. The chapter ends with a summary of the universal ratios of physical quantities which are observed in dilute solutions. While chapters 2 and 3 deal with dilute solutions, chapters 4, 5, and 6 are concerned with concentrated solutions and polymer melts. Taking into account excluded volume interactions, the application of the FENE chain model to concentrated solutions and melts is treated in chapter 4. The nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation method which is used to solve the model numerically is mentioned briefly. After discussing the flow curves predicted by this model, the stress-optical rule, its failure and possible nonlinear generalization is presented in some detail. Wormlike chains and micelles, semiflexible and liquid crystalline polymers are all treated in Chapter 5. Allowing for scission and recombinations, the FENE chain model is extended to model wormlike micelles. An approximate calculation of the chain length distribution based on ideal Gaussian chains is one of a few examples in Part I of the book where an analytical approach to these models is shown. Static properties of wormlike chains are first reviewed and later used for an extension of the FENE chain model to semiflexible chains. Further, allowing for inhomogeneous chains which inter-chain attractive interactions, an extension of the FENE model to liquid crystalline polymers is proposed which is able to describe isotropic, nematic as well as smectic phases. The Doi-Edwards model of polymer melts is introduced in Chapter 6 together with a refinement including anisotropic tube renewal. The predictions of viscoelastic and orientational properties are presented and a possible closure approximation is discussed. Their recent improvements on the original Doi-Edwards model like double reptation, convected constrained release are, however, left out. Chapter 7 is devoted to suspensions of rigid particles. In this chapter, not only the Ericksen-Leslie theory of anisotropic suspensions and its possible derivation from a Fokker-Planck equation is discussed, but also models for ferrofluids and liquid crystals are presented in a unifying fashion. Chapter 7 concludes the presentation of different models for complex fluids and their structural and dynamical properties. On the first sight, the following chapter on the relation of different levels of descriptions seems somehow disconnected from the rest of the book. However, a more thorough approach touches on these issues in the derivation of the models presented in the preceeding chapters, the choice of the model parameters, and the relation to more simplified models. This very active field of multi-scale modeling and coarse-grained description is not covered explicitly in this book. Instead, Chapter 8 presents a thermodynamically-guided approach to reduced description proposed and explored by Ötinger and the author in the last years. The author describes this promising approach in a very comprehensive manner, from the theoretical relation between different levels of description to example applications and numerical tests in computer simulations.

Part II of the book is rather technical and provides concepts of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical physics which are used to obtain the results discussed in part I. First, a very brief summary of standard and recent Monte Carlo simulation techniques is presented in chapter 9. Then, a chapter on tensor calculus is added, where the notation used in the book is explained in detail. The Fokker-Planck equation, playing a central role in part I, is treated in chapter 11. Finally, chapter 12 provides a very useful collection of sample codes illustrating various models discussed in the first part of the book. The codes written in the MATLAB language are sufficiently transparent in order to demonstrate the numerical implementation even to those readers who are not very familiar with programming issues.

Rather than trying to cover all fluids in the field, 'Models for Polymeric and anisotropic liquids' focuses on some selected models and provides ideas and tools needed to explore new applications. On roughly 200 pages, the author covers a considerable number of different systems and the corresponding models. This nicely written book compactly describes these models which are mostly different extensions of the FENE chain model on various levels of abstraction. Together with the example codes provided for in chapter 12, readers familiar with polymer physics and rheology will benefit form the clear presentation which stimulates one's own investigations.With chapter 8 on a particular approach to reduced description, the reader is also introduced to the current status of one of the very promising developments in this field. Author: Patrick Ilg. Published in Applied Rheology - international journal.

Flexible Polymer Chains in Elongational Flow: Theory and Experiment

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Flexible Polymer Chains in Elongational Flow: Theory and Experiment

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The behavior of polymer solutions in elongational flow has been treated quite recently in the literature but scattered in disparate scientific journals not easily accessible. This is very surprising since elongational flow is known to be very effective on polymer chains and thus more interesting than the already wellknown shear flow. This book covers for the first time the subject from the point of view of the various disciplines. It achieves a balance between science, experiment and technology and integrates the fundamental and practical aspects.

Ionic Liquids in Polymer Systems: Solvents, Additives, and Novel Applications (Acs Symposium Series)

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Ionic Liquids in Polymer Systems: Solvents, Additives, and Novel Applications (Acs Symposium Series)

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ASIN: 0841239363

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This book includes manuscripts from well-recognized international research groups that have taken different approaches to using ionic liquids in a variety of polymer applications. The chapters on polymer synthesis cover traditional free radical polymerizations, which have been shown to progress rapidly and yield high molecular weight polymers, and reverse atom transfer polymerizations. The ability to tune molecular weights and synthesize block copolymers has been attributed to long free radical lifetimes in ionic liquids. Other chapters cover a variety of uses for ionic liquids in polymer processing, designing specific material properties, and creating novel composites, such as ion gels and ionic liquid-carbon nanotube constructs. This book represents a new and exciting field in polymer chemistry and physics, and is growing rapidly as more fundamental knowledge of ionic liquids is uncovered.

CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems

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CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems
Christian Wohlfarth
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The CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems presents data that is as essential to the production, process design, and use of polymers as it is to understanding the physical behavior and intermolecular interactions in polymer solutions and in developing thermodynamic polymer models. Providing an all-encompassing collection of current enthalpy data for all types of polymer solutions, this handbook is a ready companion with Christian Wohlfarth's previously published handbooks of thermodynamic data for copolymer solutions, aqueous polymer solutions, and polymer solutions at elevated pressures, which contain only a small amount of enthalpic data in comparison to the data presented here. This volume contains 1770 data sets that include enthalpies of mixing and dilution for the entire concentration range as well as partial enthalpies of mixing and solution at infinite dilution. Special appendices allow scientists to access specific systems and data easily. The CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems is a practical, one-stop resource that allows polymer chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and physical chemists involved in both industrial and laboratory processes to quickly retrieve relevant information as needed.

Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions

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Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions
Hiromi Yamakawa
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A new and general model, called the "helical wormlike chain", for both flexible and semi-flexible polymer chains is presented. Statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties are developed on the basis of this model. There are also given analysis of recent experimental data by the use of these theories for flexible polymers over a wide range of molecular weight, including the oligomer region, and for semi-flexible polymers, including biological macromolecules such as DNA. The book includes a reasonable number of theoretical equations, tables, figures, and computer-aided forms, enough to provide understanding of the basic theory and to facilitate its application to experimental data for the polymer molecular characterization.

Surfactants and Polymers in Aqueous Solution

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Surfactants and Polymers in Aqueous Solution
Krister Holmberg , Bo Jönsson , Bengt Kronberg , and Björn Lindman
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Many industrial formulations such as detergents, paints, foodstuff and cosmetics contain both surfactants and polymers and their interaction govern many of the properties. This book is unique in that it discusses the solution chemistry of both surfactants and polymers and also the interactions between the two. The book, which is based on successful courses given by the authors since 1992, is a revised and extended version of the first edition that became a market success with six reprints since 1998. Surfactants and Polymers in Aqueous Solution is broad in scope, providing both theoretical insights and practical help for those active in the area.
This book contains a thorough discussion of surfactant types and gives information of main routes of preparation. A chapter on novel surfactants has been included in the new edition. Physicochemical phenomena such as self-assembly in solution, adsorption, gel formation and foaming are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the solution behaviour of surfactants and polymers containing polyoxyethylene chains. Surface active polymers are presented and their interaction with surfactants is a core topic of the book. Protein-surfactant interaction is also important and a new chapter deals with this issue. Microemulsions are treated in depth and several important application such as detergency and their use as media for chemical reactions are presented. Emulsions and the choice of emulsifier is discussed in some detail. The new edition also contains chapters on rheology and wetting.
Surfactants and Polymers in Aqueous Solution is aimed at those dealing with surface chemistry research at universities and with surfactant formulation in industry.

Structure Formation in Solution : Ionic Polymers and Colloidal Particles

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Structure Formation in Solution : Ionic Polymers and Colloidal Particles
Norio Ise , and Ikuo Sogami
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This book is designed to critically review experimental findings on ionic polymers and colloidal particles and to prove a theoretical framework based on the Poisson-Boltzmann approach. Structure formation in ionic polymer solutions has attracted attention since the days of H. Staudinger and J. D. Bernal. An independent study on ionic colloidal dispersions with microscopy provided a compelling evidence of structure formation. Recent technical developments have made it possible to accumulate relevant information for both ionic polymers and colloidal particles in dilute systems. The outstanding phenomenon experimentally found is microscopic inhomogeneity in the solute distribution in macroscopically homogeneous systems.To account for the observation, the present authors have invoked the existence of the counterion-mediated attraction between similarly charged solute species, in addition to the widely accepted electrostatic repulsion.

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