Beschreibung:
Madeleine Djabourov is Professor at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI-ParisTech), in charge of thermodynamics and rheology courses. She was involved in pioneer studies on gelation and percolation initiated by Pierre Gilles de Gennes.
Provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on state-of-the-art physical gels, highlighting recent developments and practical applications.
1. Introduction; 2. Techniques for the characterisation of physical gels; 3. The sol-gel transition; 4. General properties of polymer networks; 5. Ionic gels; 6. Hydrophobically associated networks; 7. Helical structures from neutral biopolymers; 8. Gelation through phase transformation in synthetic and natural polymers; 9. Colloidal gels from proteins and peptides; 10. Mixed gels; 11. Innovative systems and applications.