Statistical Physics of Macromolecules

by Alexei R. Khokhlov, Alexander Yu Grosberg, Vijay S. Pande

Overview

Market: Specialists and graduate students in polymer physics, statistical physics, physical chemistry of polymers, materials science, molecular biophysics, and chemical engineering. This introductory volume presents in-depth descriptions of fundamental concepts as well as key industrial applications in polymer physical chemistry and molecular biophysics. Topics include statistical theories of polymer solutions, melts, polymer liquid crystals, polymer networks, and polyelectrolytes; statistics of ideal chains; the viscoelastic behavior of polymer systems; and various features of biopolymers, DNA, and proteins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563960710
Publisher:	American Inst. of Physics
Publication date:	03/13/2002
Series:	Polymers and Complex Materials
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Partial Contents: 1. Ideal Polymer Chain. A Freely Jointed Chain. Flexibility of a Polymer Chain. Size of an Ideal Polymer Chain. 2. Polymer Chains with Volume Interactions. Basic Definitions and Methods. Polymer Chain Models of Systems with Volume Interactions. Basic Definitions in the Theory of Volume Interactions in Polymer Systems. Perturbation Theory for Polymer Coils with Volume Interactions. 3. Single Macromolecule with Volume Interactions. Swelling of a Polymer Coil in Good Solvent (excluded volume problem). Renormalization Group and S-expansion Methods Applied to the Excluded Volume Problem. Properties of Polymer Coils with Excluded Volume (the scaling concept and the notion of a blob). 4. Polymer solutions and melts. Basic Preliminary Data and Definitions. Theory of Polymer Solutions and Melts in the Self-Consistent Field Approximation. Appendix. Flory Lattice Theory of Polymer Solutions and Melts. 5. Other Polymer Systems. Polymer Mixtures and Block Copolymers. Liquid- Crystal Polymers. High Elasticity of Polymer Networks. Methods of Polymer Network Synthesis. 6. Dynamic Properties of Polymer Solutions and Melts. The Rouse Model: a Phantom Chain in Immobile Solvent. The

Editorial Reviews

An introduction to the whole field of the physical theory of polymers, which are both excellent materials for many technological purposes and the key element of biological machinery. The revised and updated English translation of a notable Russian textbook, its treatment extends from in-depth descriptions of fundamental concepts to key industrial applications in various fields of polymer physical and biophysical chemistry. This English edition also features selections on important recent advances in such areas as statistical theory of DNA gel-electrophoresis, polymers at interfaces, and dynamics of concentrated solutions of branched polymers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews