Presents the latest knowledge on a wide range of topics in polymer science, including the dynamics, preparation, application, and physiochemical properties of polymer solutions and colloids; the adsorption characteristics at polymer surfaces; and the adhesion properties (including acid-base) of polymer surfaces.
All papers have been peer-reviewed. This book gives up to date information on complex systems for experimental, theoretical, and computational researchers in the various fields, such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, polymer science, and computer science. The book contains review articles by leading scientists and contributed papers by ...
Finally, this is an authoritative, comprehensive textbook in this commercially and academically important field. Billions of kilograms of polymers are manufactured annually in the form of polymer colloids. Thousands of researchers work with them in a host of applications, from water-borne latex paints to cancer chemotherapeutics, but until now ...
The emphasis of this book is on new advances in polymer gels, particularly with biomedical applications in mind. At the same time, current progress in synthesis, characterization, and physicochemical characterization and properties are highlighted. Section I deals with the fundamentals of the static and dynamic properties of polymer networks and ...
Food Polymers, Gels and Colloids describes recent developments in the understanding of the role of food polymers in determining the properties of food colloids. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of current activity in the field and covers such topics as: interaction and aggregation behaviour of proteins and polysaccharides in ...
This is a comprehensive and up to date survey of the science and technology of polymeric dispersions. The book discusses the kinetics and mechanisms of polymerization in dispersed media, examines the processes controlling particle morphology, presents both off-line and on-line methods for the characterization of polymer colloids, considers reactor ...
This timely review of work at the forefront of the polymer-colloid field includes an introduction to interactions in colloidal systems and introductions to scattering techniques (light, X-ray and neutron), including discussion of the two-colour light scattering technique. Recent advances in the following areas are included: dynamics in polymer ...
This overview describes new ideas and techniques for the study of structure and dynamics of direct relevance to food. It pays particular attention to the microstructure and rheology of concentrated systems containing deformable particles, emulsion droplets and gas bubbles, and describes factors affecting the composition, structure and dynamic ...
This volume spans the field of polymer colloids. Many types of latexes are discussed, including: homopolymers, copolymers, and natural polymers, those made with reactive surfactants and polymeric stabilizers, surface-modified, hybrids and blends. A variety of polymerization processes are described varying from batch to semicontinuous, free ...
This monograph emphasizes the relationship between the microscopic structure of gels and their macroscopic behaviour. It deals with organic polymeric gels, focusing on experimental methods which have only recently been introduced to study both reversible and irreversible gels. The book introduces the reader to the theory and practice of physics as ...
Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial predictive power. These liquids expand our conception of what condensed matter can do. Such structured-fluid phenomena dominate the physical environment ...
"Colloidal Biomolecules, Biomaterials, and Biomedical Applications" is an authoritative presentation of established and recent techniques promising to revolutionize the areas of biomedical diagnostics, therapeutics, pharmaceutics, and drug delivery. This exceptional book details an original homogeneous assay for biomolecule detection and capture ...
"Nanocomposite Structures and Dispersions" is concerned with the chemistry of the reaction approaches by which polymer and metal particles are synthesized. Although, the scope of this volume is focused on metal particles, the basic knowledge of polymer colloids preparation is presented. Therefore, this book would serve as a general introduction to ...
This review shows that the measurement of viscoelastic properties is a powerful tool in the study of thermoreversible gels. Although many conclusions may be drawn about network development and its structure, it is also shown that the use of additional techniques (e.g. small angle S-ray and neutron scattering techniques and optical rotation) and ...
This book is intended to bring basic researchers, biomedical engineers, and industrial scientists up-to-date with new developments in polymers and gels. It describes the physics and chemistry underlying polymer gel phase transitions, polymer structural changes used to control biointerfactual behavior, and intelligent polymer materials which are ...
This text offers an in-depth look at the properties, thermodynamic formation, structure, latest trends and scientific application of bio- and synthetic polymer gels. It describes the use of hydrogels as superabsorbents, carriers for controlled drug release, membranes with regulated permeability, sensor devices and artificial muscles.
Amidst developments in nanotechnology and successes in catalytic emulsion polymerization of olefins, polymerization in dispersed media is arousing an increasing interest from both practical and fundamental points of view. This text describes ultramodern approaches to synthesis, preparation, characterization, and functionalization of latexes, ...
This book is a physical chemist's approach to polymers and, as such, takes a unique and intermediate position between physical and polymer chemistry. Intended primarily as an introduction to the study of the subject, it analyses the range of problems encompassed by the colloid chemistry of polymers with the aim of clarifying the most important ...
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