Polymers in Solution : Their Modelling and Structure (Hardcover)

Polymers and polymer solutions; General descriptions of long chains, universality, critical phenomena, and scaling laws; Mathematical models of chains: static properties; Computer experiments; Osmotic pressure and density; Radiation scattering; Study of the structure of a solution by small-angle scattering; Repulsive chains - old theories; The grand canonical formalism; Standard continuous model and perturbation calculations; Relations between chain theory and field theory: Laplace-de-Gennes transformation; Renormalization and criticality; Polymers in solution in good solvents: theoretical results; Partially attractive chains: theoretical results; Polymers in good solvents: experimental results; Partially attractive chains: experimental results.