Polymer Solutions

Polymer Solutions: An Introduction to Physical Properties offers afresh, inclusive approach to teaching the fundamentals of physicalpolymer science. Students, instructors, and professionals inpolymer chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry,engineering, materials, and textiles will find Iwao Teraoka'stext at once accessible and highly detailed in its treatment of theproperties of polymers in the solution phase.
Teraoka's purpose in writing Polymer Solutions is twofold:to familiarize the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduatestudent with basic concepts, theories, models, and experimentaltechniques for polymer solutions; and to provide a reference forresearchers working in the area of polymer solutions as well asthose in charge of chromatographic characterization of polymers.The author's incorporation of recent advances in theinstrumentation of size-exclusion chromatography, the method bywhich polymers are analyzed, renders the text particularlytopical.
Subjects discussed include:
* Real, ideal, Gaussian, semirigid, and branched polymerchains
* Polymer solutions and thermodynamics
* Static light scattering of a polymer solution
* Dynamic light scattering and diffusion of polymers
* Dynamics of dilute and semidilute polymer solutions
Study questions at the end of each chapter not only providestudents with the opportunity to test their understanding, but alsointroduce topics relevant to polymer solutions not included in themain text. With over 250 geometrical model diagrams, PolymerSolutions is a necessary reference for students and for scientistspursuing a broader understanding of polymers.