Microgel suspensions : fundamentals and applications / edited by Alberto Fernandez-Nieves [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernandez-Nieves, Alberto, editor.

Carl Hering Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colloids.

Suspensions (Chemistry).

Physical Description:

xxi, 461 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2011]

Contents:

1. Synthesis. Microgels and their synthesis: an introduction / Robert Pelton, Todd Hoare

Polymerization kinetics of microgel particles / Abdelhamid Elaissari, Ali Reza Mahdavian

New functional microgels from microfluidics / Jin-Woong Kim, Liang-Yin Chu

2. Physical properties of microgel particles. Swelling thermodynamics of microgel particles / Benjamin Sierra-Martin, Juan Jose Lietor-Santos, Antonio Fernandez-Barbero, Toan T Nguyen, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

Determination of microgel structure by small-angle neutron scattering / Walter Richtering, Ingo Berndt, Jan Skov Pedersen

Interactions and colloid stability of microgel particles / Brian Vincent, Brian Saunders

3. Phase behavior and dynamics of microgel suspensions. Structure and thermodynamics of ionic microgels / Christos N Likos

Elasticity of soft particles and colloids near the jamming threshold / Matthieu Wyart

Crystallization of microgel spheres / Zhibing Hu

Melting and geometric frustration in temperature-sensitive colloids / Ahmed M Alsayed, Yilong Han, Arjun G Yodh

4. Mechanical Properties. Yielding, flow, and slip in microgel suspensions: from microstructure to macroscopic rheology / Michel Cloitre

Mechanics of single microgel particles / Hans M Wyss, Johan Mattsson, Thomas Franke, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, David A Weitz

Rheology of industrially relevant microgels / Jason R Stokes

5. Applications. Exploiting the optical properties of microgels and hydrogels as microlenses and photonic crystals in sensing applications / L Andrew Lyon, Grant R Hendrickson, Zhiyong Meng, Ashlee N St John Iyer

Microgels in drug delivery / Martin Malmsten

Microgels for oil recovery / Yuxing Ben, Ian Robb, Peng Tonmukayakul, Qiang Wang

Applications of biopolymer microgels / Eugene Pashkovski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Carl Hering Library Fund.

ISBN:

3527321586

9783527321582

OCLC:

714142564

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