Miscible Polymer Blends: Background and Guide for Calculations and Design

Title: Miscible Polymer Blends: Background and Guide for Calculations and Design

Description:

• A valuable tool for understanding the mixing of polymer blends
• Facilitates finding combinations of polymers that work - and don't
• Ready to apply in your lab or research facility
Written and developed by two of the world's leading authorities, the software + book Miscible Polymer Blends offers polymer chemists and engineers a method for very rapidly determining which polymers and co-polymers mix and do not mix. The CD-ROM calculator is designed to aid in determining promising polymer blends for many different applications. A self-guided tutorial on the CD-ROM, as well as an accompanying booklet, presents the theoretical background.
Based on twenty years of research, Miscible Polymer Blends is an inexpensive, easy-to-use instrument for investigating and refining polymer combinations. The package offers succinct and precise explanations, which will be of value to those requiring a clear introduction to the fascinating field of polymer blends.
CONTENTS (with selected subtopics)
1. Tutorial
• An In-Depth Guided Tour of How to Predict Miscible Polymer Mixtures
2. Additional Material on Relevant Topics
• Solubility Parameters
• Group Contributions
• How Group Contributions are Determined
• Specific Interactions
• Critical Values of Solubility Parameter Differences
• The Dilution Algorithm
• Self-Association
• Inter-Association
• Infrared Studies of Blends
• Different Equilibrium Schemes
• Infrared Determination of Equilibrium Constants
• Temperature Dependence of Equilibrium Constants
• Polymer Self-Association Equilibrium Constants
• Intramolecular Screening
• Functional Group Accessibility
• Hydrogen Bonding Free Energy Equation
• Phase Behavior

3. Calculators
• Solubility Parameter Calculator for Homopolymers
• Solubility Parameter Calculator for Random Copolymers
• Miscibility Checker for Two Homopolymers
• Miscibility Checker for a Homopolymer with a Copolymer
• Miscibility Checker for Two Copolymers
• Miscibility Windows and Maps
• Phase Calculator for Hydrogen Bonded Polymer Blends