Madeleine Djabourov, Katsuyoshi Nishinari, Simon B. Ross-Murphy

Physical Gels from Biological and Synthetic Polymers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on state-of-the-art physical gels, highlighting recent developments and practical applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780521769648
• ISBN-10: 0521769647
• Artikelnr.: 37067071

Autorenporträt

Madeleine Djabourov is Professor at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI-ParisTech), in charge of thermodynamics and rheology courses. She was involved in pioneer studies on gelation and percolation initiated by Pierre Gilles de Gennes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Techniques for the characterisation of physical gels
3. The sol-gel transition
4. General properties of polymer networks
5. Ionic gels
6. Hydrophobically associated networks
7. Helical structures from neutral biopolymers
8. Gelation through phase transformation in synthetic and natural polymers
9. Colloidal gels from proteins and peptides
10. Mixed gels
11. Innovative systems and applications.