Download or read book Crystallization as Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy written by Tiberio A. Ezquerra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new approaches that offer a better characterization of the interrelationship between crystalline and amorphous phases. In recent years, the use of dielectric spectroscopy has significantly improved our understanding of crystallization. The combination of modern scattering methods, using either synchrotron light or neutrons and infrared spectroscopy with dielectrics, is now helping to reveal modifications of both crystalline and amorphous phases. In turn, this yields insights into the underlying physics of the crystallization process in various materials, e.g. polymers, liquid crystals and diverse liquids. The book offers an excellent introduction to a valuable application of dielectric spectroscopy, and a helpful guide for every scientist who wants to study crystallization processes by means of dielectric spectroscopy.
Download or read book Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy written by Friedrich Kremer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an introductory course to broadband dielectric spectroscopy and a monograph describing recent dielectric contributions to current topics, this book is the first to cover the topic and has been hotly awaited by the scientific community.
Download or read book Dynamics of Composite Materials written by Andreas Schönhals and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents recent developments in the field of composites, investigated by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) and sheds a special focus on nanocomposites. This volume compares the results obtained by BDS with data from other methods like hyphenated calorimetry, dynamical-mechanical spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy and neutron scattering. The addressed systems range from all kinds of model systems, such as polymers filled with spherical silica particles, advanced materials such as polymers with molecular stickers or hyperbranched polymer-based matrices to industrially significant systems, like epoxy-based materials. The book offers an excellent insight to a valuable application of dielectric spectroscopy and it is a helpful guide for every scientist who wants to study dynamics in composite materials.
Download or read book Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy written by William Henry Hunter Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy as a Modern Analytical Technique"--
Download or read book Fatigue Crack Growth in Rubber Materials written by Gert Heinrich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book summarizes recent international research and experimental developments regarding fatigue crack growth investigations of rubber materials. It shows the progress in fundamental as well as advanced research of fracture investigation of rubber material under fatigue loading conditions, especially from the experimental point of view. However, some chapters will describe the progress in numerical modeling and physical description of fracture mechanics and cavitation phenomena in rubbers. Initiation and propagation of cracks in rubber materials are dominant phenomena which determine the lifetime of these soft rubber materials and, as a consequence, the lifetime of the corresponding final rubber parts in various fields of application. Recently, these phenomena became of great scientific interest due to the development of new experimental methods, concepts and models. Furthermore, crack phenomena have an extraordinary impact on rubber wear and abrasion of automotive tires; and understanding of crack initiation and growth in rubbers will help to support the growthing number of activities and worldwide efforts of reduction of tire wear losses and abrasion based emissions.
Download or read book Dynamics in Geometrical Confinement written by Friedrich Kremer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the dynamics of low molecular weight and polymeric molecules when they are constrained under conditions of geometrical confinement. It covers geometrical confinement in different dimensionalities: (i) in nanometer thin layers or self supporting films (1-dimensional confinement) (ii) in pores or tubes with nanometric diameters (2-dimensional confinement) (iii) as micelles embedded in matrices (3-dimensional) or as nanodroplets. The dynamics under such conditions have been a much discussed and central topic in the focus of intense worldwide research activities within the last two decades. The present book discusses how the resulting molecular mobility is influenced by the subtle counterbalance between surface effects (typically slowing down molecular dynamics through attractive guest/host interactions) and confinement effects (typically increasing the mobility). It also explains how these influences can be modified and tuned, e.g. through appropriate surface coatings, film thicknesses or pore diameters. "Dynamics in Confinement" sums up the present state-of-the-art and introduces to the analytical methods of choice for the study of dynamics in nanometer-scale confinement.
Download or read book Disordered Pharmaceutical Materials written by Marc Descamps and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-stop resource for researchers, developers, and post graduate students in pharmaceutical science. This handbook and ready reference provides detailed, but not overloaded information -- presenting the topic without unnecessarily complex formalism. As such, it gives a systematic and coherent overview of disordered materials for pharmaceutical applications, covering fundamental aspects, as well as preparation and characterization techniques for the target-oriented development of drug delivery systems based on disordered crystals and amorphous solids. Special attention is paid to examine the different facets and levels of disorder in their structural and dynamic aspects as well as the effect of disorder on dissolution and stability. Chapters on processing induced disorder and on patenting issues round off the book. As a result the book helps overcoming the challenges of using these materials in the pharmaceutical industry. For pharmaceutical and medicinal chemists, materials scientists, clinical physicists, and pharmaceutical laboratories looking to make better and more potent pharmaceuticals.
Download or read book Relaxation Dynamics and Crystallization Kinetics of Glass forming Drugs written by Guadalupe Natalia Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glassy phases play an important role in our daily life and in many industries such as the food, pharmaceutical, and construction and are responsible for certain vital mechanisms in living species. Whereas crystals are solid phases that show periodicity of the constituent atoms or molecules, glasses are disordered solids that lack long-range positional order but behave mechanically like solids. Chapter 1 of the current thesis presents an introduction to the characteristics and dynamics of glassy phases. How they are derived from the liquid phase, and how they transform into the crystalline solid phase, thermodynamically more stable. The temperature at which a liquid transforms to the amorphous (glassy) phase is called the glass transition temperature, Tg. Along this thesis the relaxation dynamics of prilocaine (PLC) and stiripentol (STP), and the isothermal crystallization process of the latter have been experimentally studied. Both PLC and STP are drugs used in medical applications mainly as anesthesia and for the treatment of epilepsy, respectively. The studied materials have been analyzed by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS), Differential Scanning Calorimetry, X-Ray diffraction, Raman and I.R spectroscopy and confocal microscopy. The physical principles of BDS, the main experimental tool employed, are presented in Chapter 2. The details of the experimental set-ups are stated in Chapter 3. In the case of a pharmaceutical product, being able to control and foresee the aggregation phase and dissolution rate of the substance is vital. Many drugs are poorly soluble in water and thus, in biological media. The glass state of a drug is a non-equilibrium state that presents higher free energy than the crystal. This implies, that a glassy drug dissolves more rapidly and can be absorbed in larger amounts. Nevertheless, the higher free energy of glassy phases represents at the same time a major problem for shelf-life, since metastable phases are prone to spontaneously transforming into the stable crystalline state. This is a major problem, since wrong dosage or agglomeration of a drug could render it useless or toxic for the human body. Understanding the glass and crystallization dynamics of drugs, and their interaction with water is key to develop more efficient products. Water is the universal biological solvent. For most materials the addition of water leads to a decrease in viscosity, or equivalently, an increase of molecular mobility, resulting in a lower glass transition temperature Tg (the higher the water content the lower the Tg). This is referred to as the plasticizing effect of water. Chapter 4 presents a detailed analysis of both pure and hydrated prilocaine. Results show that the addition of water to PLC leads to the formation of PLC-water complexes, possibly water-bridged monomers or dimers that increase Tg. This antiplasticizing effect of water on the molecular mobility of a simple glass former represents a significant exception to the alleged universality of water as drug plasticizer. The physico-chemical origins of this behavior have been confirmed by studying the effect of confinement of the pure and hydrated drug in the pores of a nonporous structure (Chapter 5). In the case of STP, not only the glassy dynamics were studied, but also the crystallization process (Chapter 6). A sublinear correlation between the characteristic crystal-growth time and the relaxation time of the cooperative relaxation dynamics of stiripentol was found. This correlation was observed also in other substances, which suggests that it is a general correlation at temperatures above Tg. This may allow predicting a substance's crystallization time as a function of temperature. The results of this thesis provide valuable insight into the kinetics and relaxation dynamics, as well as the phase stability, of both studied drugs that could be general to other amorphous drugs. Global conclusions are outlined in Chapter 7.
Download or read book Crystal Materials for Nonlinear Optical Devices and Microgravity Science written by Ravindra Behari Lal and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poly Trimethylene Terephthalate written by A. R. Ajitha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains general concepts of an important engineering thermoplastic polymer—polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT). It describes preparation methods, characterization techniques, and various applications of PTT-based blends, IPNs, and composites. It also gives a clear idea about the engineering thermoplastic, PTT, and its importance in future. In addition to the basic concepts of PTT-based materials, the book also includes novel studies and issues on this topic. This book is an outcome of contributions by experts from different disciplines with various backgrounds and expertise. This book is useful for professionals, researchers, industrial practitioners, graduate students, and senior undergraduates of polymer science and engineering. Additionally, it is also beneficial for researchers working on materials science, surface science, bioengineering, chemical engineering, and nanomaterials. This book helps the researchers and students in expanding their knowledge in this field.
Download or read book Crystallization in Multiphase Polymer Systems written by Sabu Thomas and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystallization in Multiphase Polymer Systems is the first book that explains in depth the crystallization behavior of multiphase polymer systems. Polymeric structures are more complex in nature than other material structures due to their significant structural disorder. Most of the polymers used today are semicrystalline, and the subject of crystallization is still one of the major issues relating to the performance of semicrystalline polymers in the modern polymer industry. The study of the crystallization processes, crystalline morphologies and other phase transitions is of great significance for the understanding the structure-property relationships of these systems. Crystallization in block copolymers, miscible blends, immiscible blends, and polymer composites and nanocomposites is thoroughly discussed and represents the core coverage of this book. The book critically analyzes the kinetics of nucleation and growth process of the crystalline phases in multi-component polymer systems in different length scales, from macro to nanoscale. Various experimental techniques used for the characterization of polymer crystallization process are discussed. Written by experts in the field of polymer crystallization, this book is a unique source and enables professionals and students to understand crystallization behavior in multiphase polymer systems such as block copolymers, polymer blends, composites and nanocomposites. Covers crystallization of multiphase polymer systems, including copolymers, blends and nanocomposites Features comprehensive, detailed information about the basic research, practical applications and new developments for these polymeric materials Analyzes the kinetics of nucleation and growth process of the crystalline phases in multi-component polymer systems in different length scales, from macro to nanoscale
Download or read book Polymers and Multicomponent Polymeric Systems written by Jose James and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, multicomponent polymers have generated much interest due to their excellent properties, unique morphology and high-end applications. Book focusses on thermal, thermo-mechanical and dielectric analysis of polymers and multicomponent polymeric systems like blends, interpenetrating polymeric networks (IPNs), gels, polymer composites, nanocomposites. Through these analyses, it provides an insight into the stability of polymer systems as a function of time, processing and usage. Aimed at polymer chemists, physicists and engineers, it also covers ASTM /ISO and other standards of various measurement techniques for systematic analysis in materials science.
Download or read book Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems written by American Institute of Physics and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives up-to-date information on the liquid-glass transition in various disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, polymer science, and computer science. The book contains review articles by leading scientists and contributed papers by authors in the forefront of research. The systems studied covered almost all states of matter including solids, liquids, complex solutions, polymers, and suspensions. Significant progress was made on a variety of topics. Among these were experimental and theoretical studies of colloidal systems; experiments on glass to glass transitions in micellar systems; theoretical studies of polyelectrolytes and polymer melts and networks; theoretical and computer studies of hydrodynamics in suspensions and Rayleigh-Taylor and Rayleigh-Couette instabilities; theoretical and experimental studies of the glass transition; computer simulations of the glass transition in thin films; vibrational motions in glass forming liquids and glasses; the effects of shear on supercooled liquids; engineering and experimental studies of metallic glasses; mode-coupling studies of complex glass formation; and Lorentz gas studies of the translational and rotational motion of a rigid rod.
Download or read book Amorphous Drugs written by Marzena Rams-Baron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains theoretical and technological aspects of amorphous drug formulations. It is intended for all those wishing to increase their knowledge in the field of amorphous pharmaceuticals. Conversion of crystalline material into the amorphous state, as described in this book, is a way to overcome limited water solubility of drug formulations, in this way enhancing the chemical activity and bioavailability inside the body. Written by experts from various fields and backgrounds, the book introduces to fundamental physical aspects (explaining differences between the ordered and the disordered solid states, the enhancement of solubility resulting from drugs amorphization, physical instability and how it can be overcome) as well as preparation and formulation procedures to produce and stabilize amorphous pharmaceuticals. Readers will thus gain a well-funded understanding and find a multi-faceted discussion of the properties and advantages of amorphous drugs and of the challenges in producing and stabilizing them. The book is an ideal source of information for researchers and students as well as professionals engaged in research and development of amorphous pharmaceutical products.
Download or read book Natural Rubber Materials written by Sabu Thomas and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive two volume set covering the synthesis, characterization and applications of natural rubber based blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, composites and nanocomposites.
Download or read book Solid State Characterization of Pharmaceuticals written by Richard A. Storey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of solid state characterization is central to the pharmaceutical industry, as drug products are, in an overwhelming number of cases, produced as solid materials. Selection of the optimum solid form is a critical aspect of the development of pharmaceutical compounds, due to their ability to exist in more than one form or crystal structure (polymorphism). These polymorphs exhibit different physical properties which can affect their biopharmaceutical properties. This book provides an up-to-date review of the current techniques used to characterize pharmaceutical solids. Ensuring balanced, practical coverage with industrial relevance, it covers a range of key applications in the field. The following topics are included: Physical properties and processes Thermodynamics Intellectual guidance X-ray diffraction Spectroscopy Microscopy Particle sizing Mechanical properties Vapour sorption Thermal analysis & Calorimetry Polymorph prediction Form selection
Download or read book The Scaling of Relaxation Processes written by Friedrich Kremer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dielectric properties especially of glassy materials are nowadays explored at widely varying temperatures and pressures without any gap in the spectral range from μHz up to the Infrared, thus covering typically 20 decades or more. This extraordinary span enables to trace the scaling and the mutual interactions of relaxation processes in detail, e.g. the dynamic glass transition and secondary relaxations, but as well far infrared vibrations, like the Boson peak. Additionally the evolution of intra-molecular interactions in the course of the dynamic glass transition is also well explored by (Fourier Transform) Infrared Spectroscopy. This volume within 'Advances in Dielectrics' summarizes this knowledge and discusses it with respect to the existing and often competing theoretical concepts.