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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140874303321

Titolo

Microgel suspensions [[electronic resource] ] : fundamentals and applications / / edited by Alberto Fernandez-Nieves ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH, c2011

ISBN

1-282-94455-X

9786612944550

3-527-63301-4

3-527-63299-9

3-527-63300-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Fernandez-NievesAlberto

Disciplina

541.34513

Soggetti

Colloids

Suspensions (Chemistry)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Microgel Suspensions: Fundamentals and Applications; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Part One: Synthesis; 1 Microgels and Their Synthesis: An Introduction; 2 Polymerization Kinetics of Microgel Particles; 3 New Functional Microgels from Microfluidics; Part Two: Physical Properties of Microgel Particles; 4 Swelling Thermodynamics of Microgel Particles; 5 Determination of Microgel Structure by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering; 6 Interactions and Colloid Stability of Microgel Particles; Part Three: Phase Behavior and Dynamics of Microgel Suspensions

7 Structure and Thermodynamics of Ionic Microgels8 Elasticity of Soft Particles and Colloids Near the Jamming Threshold; 9 Crystallization of Microgel Spheres; 10 Melting and Geometric Frustration in Temperature-Sensitive Colloids; Part Four: Mechanical Properties; 11 Yielding, Flow, and Slip in Microgel Suspensions: From Microstructure to Macroscopic Rheology; 12 Mechanics of Single Microgel Particles; 13 Rheology of Industrially Relevant Microgels; Part Five: Applications

14 Exploiting the Optical Properties of Microgels and Hydrogels as Microlenses and Photonic Crystals in Sensing Applications15 Microgels



in Drug Delivery; 16 Microgels for Oil Recovery; 17 Applications of Biopolymer Microgels; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a vital link between chemistry and physics on the nanoscale, this book offers concise coverage of the entire topic in five major sections, beginning with synthesis of microgel particles and continuing with their physical properties. The phase behavior and dynamics of resulting microgel suspensions feature in the third section, followed by their mechanical properties. It concludes with detailed accounts of numerous industrial, commercial and medical applications.Edited by David Weitz, Professor at Harvard and one of the world's pre-eminent experts in the field.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791344703321

Autore

Houck Oliver A

Titolo

Down on the batture [[electronic resource] /] / Oliver A. Houck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2010

ISBN

1-62103-274-4

1-282-57937-1

9786612579370

1-60473-462-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

976.3/35

Soggetti

Community life - Louisiana - New Orleans Region

New Orleans Region (La.) Social life and customs

New Orleans Region (La.) Environmental conditions

New Orleans Region (La.) Description and travel

New Orleans Region (La.) Biography

Mississippi River Region Social life and customs

Mississippi River Region Environmental conditions

Mississippi River Region Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; The Batture; Motorcycle; Property; High Water; Superbowl; Spillway; Expressway; Elvis; Statue; Low Water; Parish Line; Southport; Molytones; Ghosts; Rivermen; High Wires; Casino; Seagulls; Joe Louis; Katrina; Rabbit; Liberty; Ferry; Cycling; Paggio; Homicide; Even; Gypsum; Fight; Gustav; Dewberries; IT; Communist; Squatters; Oil; Time; Malorie; Dog; Highest and Best; Acknowledgments; Sources

Sommario/riassunto

The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called ""the batture."" On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region-ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from Immigration, alimony, and other aspects of modern life. Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twenty-five years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates o