Charles M. Hansen began his work with solvents in 1962, and almost immediately began producing new and groundbreaking results. Since then his Hansen solubility (or cohesion) parameters have been extensively used and proven valuable to a variety of industries. Hansen's approach quantitatively describes hydrogen bonding and polar bonding in many types of systems — it allows correlations and systematic comparisons previously not possible, such as polymer solubility, swelling, permeation, surface wetting and dewetting, solubility of organic salts, and many biological applications.

This revised and updated edition of Hansen Solubility Parameters: A User's Handbook includes new chapters on absorption and diffusion in polymers, and environmental stress cracking, as well as presenting new information on treating biological materials, with an emphasis on recent findings on interactions with DNA. There is also new information on using statistical thermodynamics to confirm the division of cohesive energy into three parts, how HSP fits into other theories of polymer solutions, thermodynamic treatment of carbon dioxide, and much more. Highly recommended.

From the Preface: “...The first phase of film formation by solvent evaporation is controlled by surface phenomena such as solvent vapor pressure, wind velocity, heat transfer, etc., and the second phase is controlled by concentration-dependent diffusion of solvent molecules from within the film to the air surface. It is not controlled by the binding of solvent molecules to polymer molecules by hydrogen bonding as was previously thought...”

Target Audience: Chemists, chemical engineers, technicians, formulators, biochemists, and upper-level students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Solubility Parameters — An Introduction

Theory — The Prigogine Corresponding States Theory, chi-12 Interaction Parameter, and Hansen Solubility Parameters

Statistical Thermodynamic Calculations of the Hydrogen Bonding, Dipolar, and Dispersion Solubility Parameters

The Hansen Solubility Parameter (HSP) in Thermodynamic Models for Polymer Solutions

Methods of Characterization — Polymers

Methods of Characterization — Surfaces

Methods of Characterization for Pigments, Fillers, and Fibers

Applications — Coatings and Other Filled Polymer Systems

Hansen Solubility Parameters of Asphalt, Bitumen, and Crude Oils

Determination of Hansen Solubility Parameter Values for Carbon Dioxide

Use of Hansen Solubility Parameters to Identify Cleaning Applications for "Designer" Solvents

Applications — Chemical Resistance

Applications — Barrier Polymers

Applications — Environmental Stress Cracking in Polymers

Hansen Solubility Parameters — Biological Materials

Absorption and Diffusion in Polymers

Applications — Safety and Environment

The Future

Appendices

Index