Polymer-Solvent Molecular Compounds

Crystallisable polymers for the past 60 years.

Molecular compounds from crystallisable polymers, particularly from small molecules. The present book gives a detailed description of these promising systems.

The first chapter is devoted to the presentation of important investigational techniques and some theoretical approaches. The second chapter is devoted to biopolymers, the first polymers known to produce molecular compounds, chiefly with water. The third chapter deals with synthetic polymers where the compound is either due to hydrogen-bonding or to electrostatic interactions. The fourth chapter is a molecular recognition process.

- First book on the subject
- Gives a short but exhaustive description of investigational tools
- Covers both biopolymers and synthetic polymers
- Uses temperature-concentration phase diagrams abundantly for describing the systems
- Describes systems from the nano to the microscopic level, including mechanical properties

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter I. Investigation Tools
Chapter II. Biopolymer Complexes
Chapter III. Synthetic Polymer Complexes
Chapter IV. Intercalates and Clathrates
Conclusion
References
index