Polymer Solutions (PDF)

Polymer Solutions: An Introduction to Physical Properties offers a
fresh, inclusive approach to teaching the fundamentals of physical
polymer science. Students, instructors, and professionals in
polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry,
engineering, materials, and textiles will find Iwao Teraoka's
text at once accessible and highly detailed in its treatment of the
properties of polymers in the solution phase.

Teraoka's purpose in writing Polymer Solutions is twofold:
to familiarize the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate
student with basic concepts, theories, models, and experimental
techniques for polymer solutions; and to provide a reference for
researchers working in the area of polymer solutions as well as
those in charge of chromatographic characterization of polymers.
The author's incorporation of recent advances in the
instrumentation of size-exclusion chromatography, the method by
which polymers are analyzed, renders the text particularly
topical.

Subjects discussed include:

* Real, ideal, Gaussian, semirigid, and branched polymer
chains

* 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 provide
students with the opportunity to test their understanding, but also
introduce topics relevant to polymer solutions not included in the
main text. With over 250 geometrical model diagrams, Polymer
Solutions is a necessary reference for students and for scientists
pursuing a broader understanding of polymers.