Dynamic Light Scattering

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • R. Pecora

   Pages 1-6

3. Light Scattering Apparatus

   • N. C. Ford Jr.

   Pages 7-58

4. Dynamic Depolarized Light Scattering

   • Karl Zero, R. Pecora

   Pages 59-83

5. Particle Interactions

   • P. N. Pusey, R. J. A. Tough

   Pages 85-179

6. Quasielastic Light Scattering from Dilute and Semidilute Polymer Solutions!

   • D. W. Schaefer, C. C. Han

   Pages 181-243

7. Dynamic Light Scattering in Bulk Polymers

   • G. D. Patterson

   Pages 245-275

8. Critical Phenomena

   • B. Chu

   Pages 277-304

9. Laser Light Scattering in Micellar Systems

   • Norman A. Mazert

   Pages 305-346

10. Light Scattering from Polymer Gels

    • Toyoichi Tanaka

    Pages 347-362

11. Biological Applications

    • Victor A. Bloomfield

    Pages 363-416

12. Back Matter

    Pages 417-420

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In the twenty years since their inception, modern dynamic light-scattering techniques have become increasingly sophisticated, and their applications have grown exceedingly diverse. Applications of the techniques to problems in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and fluid mechanics have prolifer­ ated. It is probably no longer possible for one or two authors to write a monograph to cover in depth the advances in scattering techniques and the main areas in which they have made a major impact. This volume, which we expect to be the first of aseries, presents reviews of selected specialized areas by renowned experts. It makes no attempt to be comprehensive; it emphasizes a body of related applications to polymeric, biological, and colloidal systems, and to critical phenomena. The well-known monographs on dynamic light scattering by Berne and Pecora and by Chu were published almost ten years ago. They provided comprehensive treatments of the general principles of dynamic light scat­ tering and gave introductions to a wide variety of applications, but natu­ rally they could not treat the new applications and advances in older ones that have arisen in the last decade. The new applications include studies of interacting particles in solution (Chapter 4); scaling approaches to the dynamics of polymers, including polymers in semidilute solution (Chapter 5); the use of both Fabry-Perot interferometry and photon correlation spectroscopy to study bulk polymers (Chapter 6); studies of micelIes and microemulsions (Chapter 8); studies of polymer gels (Chapter 9).

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• Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Robert Pecora

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