Synopses & Reviews
Polymers in Solution is devoted to the static properties of flexible polymers in solution. It presents the progress made by both theory and experiment in the years up to its original publication in 1990, and remains one of the most advanced books available on this subject. Despite the variety in the chemical composition and physical properties of long polymer chains, when in solution they show a universality in their behaviour. On the experimental side, the use of photon and neutron scattering has led to a better understanding, while the use of computer simulation has also produced interesting results. This work is the result of a collaboration between a theoretician and an experimentalist, who have both worked for many years on polymer solutions.
Review
"Still the most advanced treatise on this subject. " --Bertrand Duplantier, Institute for Theoretical Physics, CEA Saclay
Table of Contents
1. Polymers and Polymer Solutions
2. General Description of Long Chains, Universality, Critical Phenomena, and Scaling Laws
3. Mathematical Models of Chains: Static Properties
4. Computer Experiments
5. Osmotic Pressure and Density
6. Radiation Scattering
7. Study of the Structure of a Solution by Small-Angle Scattering
8. Repulsive Chains - Old Theories
9. The Grand Canonical Formalism
10. Standard Continuous Model and Perturbation Calculations
11. Relations between Chain Theory and Field Theory: Laplace-De Gennes Transformation
12. Renormalization and Criticality
13. Polymers in Solution in Good Solvents: Theoretical Results
14. Partially Attractive Chains: Theoretical Results
15. Polymers in Good Solvents: Experimental Results
16. Partially Attractive Chains: Experimental Results