Phenomenology of polymer solution dynamics
By: George D. J. Phillies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521875554
Subjects: SCIENCE / Physics; Polymer solutions
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Sedimentation; 3. Electrophoresis; 4. Quasielastic light scattering and diffusion; 5. Solvent dynamics; 6. Segmental diffusion; 7. Dielectric relaxation; 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; References; Index.