Synopses & Reviews
Light scattering has become a powerful and widely-used technique in colloidal and macromolecular science in the last decade. This comprehensive volume describes recent developments in light scattering and a wide spectrum of its applications. Both are traced by experts in the field. Topics include static light scattering as applied to simple liquids, polymer solutions, and multi-component polymer mixtures; the scattering theory of colloidal dispersions; scattering from rod-like polyelectrolytes; low angle light scattering; concentrated polymer systems; aggregation phenomena; polymer-polymer interactions; and polyelectrolytes in solution. Emphasis is given to more complex systems, for example, ternary polymer systems, complex micellar systems, block copolymers in the ordered and disordered states, the determination of particle size distributions, and combined chromatographic light scattering techniques.
Table of Contents
1. Theoretical developments in static light scattering from polymers
2. Static scattering properties of colloidal suspensions
3. Theory of light scattering from rod-like polyelectrolytes
4. Polyelectrolytes in solution
5. Light scattering in concentrated polymer solutions
6. Applications of light scattering to large particle systems
7. Polymer-polymer interactions in dilute solutions
8. Scattering properties of ternary polymer systems
9. Light scattering in complex micellar systems
10. Scattering from block copolymer micellar systems
11. Light scattering by block copolymer liquids in the ordered and disordered states
12. Low angle light scattering and its applications
13. Combined static and dynamic light scattering
14. Size distributions from static light scattering
15. Light scattering and chromatography in combination