Phenomenology of polymer solution dynamics / George D.J. Phillies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillies, George D. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polymer solutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 509 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting a completely new approach to examining how polymers move in non-dilute solution, this book focuses on experimental facts, not theoretical speculations, and concentrates on polymer solutions, not dilute solutions or polymer melts. From centrifugation and solvent dynamics to viscosity and diffusion, experimental measurements and their quantitative representations are the core of the discussion. The book reveals several experiments never before recognized as revealing polymer solution properties. A novel approach to relaxation phenomena accurately describes viscoelasticity and dielectric relaxation and how they depend on polymer size and concentration. Ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in the properties of polymer solutions, the book covers real measurements on practical systems, including the very latest results. Every significant experimental method is presented in considerable detail, giving unprecedented coverage of polymers in solution.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Sedimentation

3. Electrophoresis

4. Quasielastic light scattering and diffusion

5. Solvent and small-molecule motion

6. Segmental diffusion

7. Dielectric relaxation and chain dimensions

8. Self- and tracer diffusion

9. Probe diffusion

10. Dynamics of colloids

11. The dynamic structure factor

12. Viscosity

13. Viscoelasticity

14. Nonlinear viscoelastic phenomena

15. Qualitative summary

16. Phenomenology

17. Afterword: hydrodynamic scaling model for polymer dynamics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22592-2

1-280-48499-3

1-139-22229-5

9786613579973

0-511-84318-6

1-139-21748-8

1-139-22400-X

1-139-21440-3

1-139-22057-8

OCLC:

775869845