Future Directions in Polymer Colloids

✍ Scribed by Mohamed S. El-Aasser, Robert M. Fitch (auth.), Mohamed S. El-Aasser, Robert M. Fitch (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Series: NATO ASI Series 138
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Future Directions In Polymer Colloids Hohamed S. EI-Aasser, and Robert H. Fitch (editors) It is appropriate that the first NATO-Advanced Research Workshop on "FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN POLYMER COLLOIDS" was held approximately fifty years after the first synthetic polymer latexes were made on a commercial scale during the mid-1930s. Since that time the field of what is now known as polymer colloids has been evolving rapidly, not only on the practical level, but also on the scientific and engineering levels. Billions of pounds of copolymers are manufactured annually by means of the emulsion polymerization process. "Commodity" polymers as well "specialty" polymers are prepared today for use in a wide variety of applications: synthetic rubber, floor coatings, paints, adhesives, binders for non-woven fabrics, high-impact polymers latex foam, additives for construction materials such as cement and concrete, and rheological modifiers. They are also used in numerous biomedical applications: such as diagnostic tests, immunoassays, biological cell-labeling, (identi­ fication and separation), and drug delivery systems. Small quantities of monodisperse polymer colloids are used as size calibration standards and find extensive use as model colloids to test theories in colloids surface and rheological studies. Advances have been made in our understanding of the mechanism and kinetics of the emulsion polymerization process as well as the stability of polymer colloids. Equal advances were made in engineering areas related to polymer colloids, e. g. modeling of batch, semi-continuous and continuous emulsion polymerization and copolymer­ ization processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Emulsion Copolymerization and Particle Morphology Position Paper....Pages 3-21
Semi-Continuous Emulsion Polymerization....Pages 23-45
Interpenetrating Polymer Network Latexes: Synthesis, Morphology, and Properties....Pages 47-63
Emulsion Copolymerization: Simulation of Particle Morphology....Pages 65-77
Monomer Distribution and Transport in Miniemulsion Copolymerization....Pages 79-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Rheology of Latex Systems and Concentrated Dispersions Position Paper....Pages 107-117
Polymer Colloids as Model Systems for Studying Rheology of Dispersions....Pages 119-130
Theoretical Approaches to the Rheology of Concentrated Dispersions....Pages 131-149
Structure Formation in Flowing Suspensions....Pages 151-165
Viscoelastic Properties of Concentrated Sterically Stabilized Latices and the Effect of Addition of Free Polymer....Pages 167-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Polymer Stabilized Latices Position Paper....Pages 183-189
The Stabilization and Controlled Flocculation of Sterically-Stabilized Latices....Pages 191-208
Control of Particle Size in the Dispersion Polymerization of Sterically Stabilized Polymer Colloids....Pages 209-227
Polymers at Interfaces: Adsorption and Disjoining Pressure Theories....Pages 229-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
New Techniques in Characterization of Polymer Colloids Position Paper....Pages 243-251
Characterization of Polymer Colloids....Pages 253-275
The Characterization of Polymer Colloids by Fluorescence Quenching Techniques....Pages 277-288
Dielectric Spectroscopy of Model Polystyrene Colloids....Pages 289-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Biomedical Applications of Polymer Colloids: Future Directions Position Paper —#1....Pages 307-313
Future Directions in the Latex Agglutination Assays Position Paper— #2....Pages 315-319
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Biomedical Applications of Polymer Particles with Emphasis on Cell Separation....Pages 321-354
Biomedical Applications of Monodisperse Magnetic Polymer Particles....Pages 355-370
The Use of Polystyrene Latexes in Medicine....Pages 371-394
Back Matter....Pages 395-402

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry