Abstract:
Knowledge of thermodynamic data of polymer solutions is a necessity for industrial and
laboratory processes. Furthermore, such data serve as essential tools for understanding the physical
behavior of polymer solutions, for studying intermolecular interactions, and for gaining insights
into the molecular nature of mixtures. They also provide the necessary basis for any developments
of theoretical thermodynamic models. Scientists and engineers in academic and industrial research
need such data and will benefit from a careful collection of existing data. The new CRC Handbook
of Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Data of Polymer Solutions builds a completely new and reliable
collection of LLE data for polymer solutions from the original literature. It will be a very useful
completion to the CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions, the CRC
Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Aqueous Polymer Solutions, and the CRC Handbook of
Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions at Elevated Pressures.
The
Handbook is divided into five chapters: (1) Introduction, (2) Liquid-Liquid
Equilibrium Data of Binary Polymer Solutions, (3) Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Data of Ternary
Polymer Solutions, (4) Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Data of Quaternary Polymer Solutions, and (5)
References (for all chapters). Finally, appendices quickly route the user to the desired data sets.
Thus, the book covers all the necessary systems for researchers and engineers who work in this
field.
In comparison with low-molecular systems, the amount of data for polymer solutions is
still rather small. About 1000 literature sources were perused for the purpose of this handbook,
including some dissertations and diploma papers. About 1210 data sets, i.e., 810 binary systems,
325 ternary systems (among them 110 systems composed of one polymer and two solvents and 215
systems composed of one solvent and two polymers), and 25 quaternary (or higher) systems are
reported. Additionally, tables of systems are provided where results were published only in
graphical form in the original literature to lead the reader to further sources. Data are included only
if numerical values were published or authors provided their numerical results by personal
communication (and I wish to thank all those who did so). No digitized data have been included in
this data collection. The Handbook is the first complete overview about this subject in the world s
literature. The closing day for the data collection was December 31, 2006. However, the user who
is in need of new additional data sets is kindly invited to ask for new information beyond this book
via e-mail at wohlfarth@chemie.uni-halle.de. Additionally, the author will be grateful to all users
who call his attention to mistakes and make suggestions for improvements.
The
CRC Handbook of Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Data of Polymer Solutions will be
useful to researchers, specialists, and engineers working in the fields of polymer science, physical
chemistry, chemical engineering, material science, biological science and technology, and those
developing computerized predictive packages. The Handbook should also be of use as a data
source to Ph.D. students and faculty in chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, biotechnology,
and materials science departments at universities