Product Description: In the past few years, in part fueled by nano-science and nano-technology, coatings research has taken a new turn. The new direction has also been due to the development and availability of new raw materials, innovative particles, polyelectrolytes, liquid crystals, conductive polymers, as well as large families of stimuli responsive polymer systems...read more

Product Description: Smart Coatings have novel functions and sense and interact with their environment in addition to having the traditional functions of protecting and decorating surfaces. This volume focuses on bioactive coatings, nanotechnology based coatings and novel coatings...read more

Product Description: Over the past 25 years coatings technologies have been influenced by the need to lower volatile organic contents (VOC) in order to comply with stricter environmental regulations as well as to reduce the use of costly petroleum based solvents...read more

Product Description: As polymer systems have become more complex, often consisting of blends or composites of a variety of materials, analysis based on single measurement of average property no longer adequately characterizes a polymeric material. Consequently, researchers are using linked instrumental techniques to characterize the materials, and this has resulted in what is termed hyphenated techniques...read more

Product Description: Fourteen papers cover three areas of film formation: Aspects of film formation mechanism, film property development in thermoplastic and crosslinkable systems, and the morphology and film structure of the resulting films. Advanced instrumental measurements are used to define morphology and determine unique film structures as well as to provide input into models of the film formation process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book covers recent advances in hyphenated and multidimensional chromatographic techniques for elucidating the structure, composition, molecular weight, and branching distributions in complex polymers. It describes a variety of detectors along with associated data analysis methods and combines these with site-exclusion chromatography, field flow fractionation methods, and liquid chromatographic methods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Particle size and distribution are key factors in assessing polymer chains. This volume examines a variety of recent measuring techniques, including static and dynamic light scattering methods, fractionation methods, and electrophoretic and electroacoustic separation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines the mechanisms involved in the film formation process in waterborne coatings. Discusses the use of fluorescence decay, spectroscopy, neutron scattering, infrared spectroscopy, dielectric spectroscopy, and other instrumental methods to study the film formation process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focuses on advances in three areas of multidimensional spectroscopy: NMR, vibrational, and fluorescence. Discusses important areas in polymer analysis, including diffusion, free volume, adhesion, absorption, polymer interactions, and miscibility...read more

Product Description: Presents an overview of the recent developments in the use of hyphenated multidimensional separation and detection techniques for the characterization of polymeric materials. Reports on successful multidimensional chromatographic methods and multiple detector systems...read more

Product Description: Covers significant advances in hyphenated techniques in polymer characterization. Presents coupled thermal techniques and couple-thermal-spectroscopic techniques, including STA-MS, STA-FTIR, TG/IR, GC/IR, TGA/IR, TB/FTIR, DSC/FTIR, and TGA/FTIR.

Product Description: Complementing ACS Symposium Series No. 332, Particle Size Distribution, this volume is a compendium of the current work in the field and features the latest technology now in use for particle size distribution assessment. Among the new techniques discussed are capillary hydrodynamic fractionation, field flow fractionation, disc centrifuge photosedimentometry, on-line measurements, fractuals, electrophoretic characterization, image analysis, and electric sensing zone...read more

Product Description: This volume explores the significant advances in polymer characterization methodology. Recognized experts in the field present descriptions of unique and new characterization methods. The 26 chapters of the volume are divided into four sections covering polymer fractionation and particle size distribution, dynamic mechanical analysis and rheology, spectroscopy, and morphology...read more

Product Description: Addresses the impact of computer science on automation, modeling, simulation, and optimization of polymer science as a result of the availability of more powerful, lower-cost computers and modeling software. Five sections illustrate a wide variety of modeling applications, including laboratory and information automation; mathematical modeling, simulation, and optimization; cross-linking reactions and cure process modeling; polymerization kinetics and process modeling; and polymerization process control...read more

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