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Chemistry and Technology of Water-Soluble Polymers

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Water Sensitive Chemically Cross-Linked Gels

    • Jaroslav Kálal
    Pages 71-80
  3. Thermoreversible Gelation

    • W. Borchard
    Pages 113-124
  4. Aqueous Solutions of Polyelectrolytes

    • M. Mandel
    Pages 179-192
  5. Polymer-Small Molecule Interactions

    • I. D. Robb
    Pages 193-202
  6. Polymer Adsorption

    • B. Vincent
    Pages 215-232
  7. Polymeric Flocculants

    • John Gregory
    Pages 307-320
  8. Polymers in Oil Recovery and Production

    • David E. Graham
    Pages 321-339

About this book

To the biochemist, water is, of course, the only solvent worthy of consideration, because natural macromolecules exhibit their remarkable conformational properties only in aqueous media. Probably because of these remarkable properties, biochemists do not tend to regard proteins, nucleotides and polysaccharides as polymers in the way that real polymer scientists regard methyl methacrylate and polyethylene. The laws of polymer statistics hardly apply to native biopolymers. Between these two powerful camps, lies the No-man's land of water soluble synthetic polymers: here, we must also include natural polymers which have been chemically modified. The scientific literature of these compounds is characterized by a large number of patents, which is usually a sign of little basic understanding, of 'know-how' rather than of 'know-why'. Many of the physical properties of such aqueous solutions are intriguing: the polymer may be completely miscible with water, and yet water is a 'poor' solvent, in terms of polymer parlance. ~kiny of the polymers form thermorever­ sible gels on heating or cooling. The phenomena of exothermic mixing and salting-in are common features of such systems: neither can be fully explained by the available theories. Finally, the eccentric behaviour of polyelectrolytes is well documented. Despite the lack of a sound physico-chemical foundation there is a general awareness of the importance of water soluble vinyl, acrylic, polyether, starch and cellulose derivatives, as witnessed again by ~he vast patent literature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Weston Turville, Aylesbury, England

    C. A. Finch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chemistry and Technology of Water-Soluble Polymers

  • Editors: C. A. Finch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9661-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41251-6Published: 31 March 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-9663-6Published: 05 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9661-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 358

  • Topics: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Sciences, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

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