302 Pages
by
CRC Press
302 Pages
by
CRC Press
Also available as eBook on:
This reference describes the important phases and applications of polymeric surface active materials - including colloid stabilization and solution properties, syntheses with various techniques, and uses in polymerization as stabilizers and as compatibilizers in incompatible polymer blends.;Written for scientists involved in research fields other than polymer colloids, this book discusses colloid... Read more
Polymeric surfactanst and colloid stability; synthesis of amphipathic polymeric materials - block copolymers, graft copolymers; solution properties of polymeric surfactants; polyester surfactants; poly(vinyl alcohol) and derivatives; polymeric surfactants as stabilizers in aqueous emulsion polymerization; polymeric amphipathic materials in polymer blends as compatibilizers; polymeric surfactants in nonaqueous systems; polyelectrolytes, polyampholytes, hydrogels and polymerizable surfactants; microemulsions and polymeric surfactants.
Biography
Irja Piirma
". . .a useful reference for chemists, engineers, material scientists, and polymer scientists. "
---Textile Research Journal
". . .the book is well written and easily understood; the diagrams are clearly reproduced and each chapter gives sufficient references to get deeper into the subject. "
---Polymer
". . .the author has covered an extremely wide area and. . .has gathered together under one cover information that the practitioner in the field should find extremely useful in an immediate reference book. "
---Food Hydrocolloids
