Overview

The miniaturization and performance improvements provided by solid state lasers, fibre optics and avalanche photodiode detectors have given a significant impulse to the use of photon correlation techniques in the study of laser scattering by macromolecular suspensions, liquid surfaces, critical fluids and turbulent liquids. The improvements can be found in experimental technique, colloids and aggregation, polymers, gels, liquid crystals and mixtures, protein solutions and dense media. Powerful new methods of inverse problems are being applied to data analysis. Much progress is being made in the study of dense media using index matching techniques, two colour systems and the theory of photon diffusion. Other notable developments are phase transitions in the space shuttle microgravity environment, quantum cryptography and the application of photon correlation at X-ray wavelengths using synchrotron sources. Audience: Postgraduate and industrial researchers interested in particle sizing and particle interactions, the physical chemistry of polymers, proteins, enzymes, viruses and other macromolecules, optical instrumentation, and experiments in space.

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Author:   E.R. Pike ,  J.B. Abbiss
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   40
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.887kg
ISBN:  

9780792347361

ISBN 10:   0792347366
Pages:   470
Publication Date:   30 September 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Colloids.- Experimental challenges in colloids.- Dynamic depolarized light scattering studies of anisotropic Brownian particles.- Application of the dynamic light scattering method for investigation of colloidal stability.- Long-time dynamics of concentrated colloidal suspensions.- Methods.- Suppression of multiple scattering using a single beam cross-correlation method.- Theory of multiple scattering suppression in cross-correlated light scattering employing a single laser beam.- X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy.- Polarisation fluctuations in radiation scattered by small particles.- Surface light scattering spectroscopy.- Non-linearity of APDs at high count rates.- From speckles to modes: principles and applications of fiber optic dynamic light scattering..- Polymers, Gels, Liquid Crystals, Mixtures.- Photon correlation spectroscopy of interactive polymer systems.- Local dynamics in branched polymers.- Spontaneous domain growth in the one-phase region of a gel/mixture system.- The shape, dimension and organisation of maltodextrins gel fragments with and without associated phospholipids.- Dynamic light scattering from block copolymers.- Particle diffusion and crystallisation in suspensions of hard spheres.- Use of light scattering to characterize the polysaccharides of starch.- Statistics and Data Processing.- Spatial photon correlation and statistics of nonlinear processes in nonlinear waveguides.- Photon correlation of correlated photons: experimental aspects of quantum cryptography and computation.- New opto-electronic technologies for photon correlation experiments.- Correlated, superposed and squeezed vibrational states.- Structure and properties of linear inverse problems.- New ideas in data. inversion in photon correlation spectroscopy.- Tempest in a teapot-surface and volume turbulence in a closed system.- Scattering by Dense Media.- Diffusing photon correlation.- Photon correlation spectroscopy of opaque fluids.- Scattering of light in inhomogeneous medium.- Observation of shear-induced gelation using light scattering imaging.- Single particle motion of hard-sphere-like polymer micronetwork colloids up to the colloid glass transition.- Measurement of viscoelasticity of complex fluids by diffusing-wave spectroscopy.- Space Applications.- Applying photon correlation spectroscopy in space.- IIard spheres in space: light scattering from colloidal crystals in microgravity.- Zeno: Critical fluid light scattering in microgravity.- Phase Separation and Critical Phenomena.- Static and dynamic light scattering in phase-separating systems.- Shear induced displacement of the spinodal, and spinodal demixing kinetics under shear.- Spectral kinetic and correlation characteristics of inhomogeneous mixtures in the vicinity of the critical point of stratification.- List of participants.

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