Polymer solutions, light-scattering from

We consider an experiment in which a monochromatic laser beam (with a frequency of the order of 10 s ) is incident into a small volume in a dilute polymer solution. Light scattered from that volume is received by a detector... 

Nagasawa, M., and A. Takahashi, 1972, Light scattering from polyelectrolyte solutions. Light scattering from polymer solutions, ed. M.B. lluglin (Acadennic Press, London, New York) p. 671. 

Huglin, M. B., in "Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions", Huqlin, M. B., ed.. Academic Press, New York, N. Y.,... 

Sehgal, A. and Seery, T.A.P., Anomalous dynamic light scattering from solutions of light absorbing polymers, Macromolecules, 32, 7807, 1999. 

M.B. Huglin, Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions, Academic Press, Inc, New York, 1972. 

P. Kratochvil, Classical Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions, Vol. 5 of Polymer Science Library, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1987. 

Benoit H, Froelich D (1972) In Huglin MB (ed) Light scattering from polymer solutions. Pergamon Press, London, p 467... 

Light scattering from solutions can be used to measure Molecular weights as low as that of sucrose and as high as those of proteins. In actual practice, polymer Molecular weights are of the order of 10,000-10,000,000 and can readily be measured. The method has been used for determination of absolute values... 

McIntyre, D., Gornick F. (eds.) Light scattering from dilute polymer solutions. New York Gordon and Breach 1964... 

IJuglin, M. B.(ed.) Light scattering from polymer solutions. London/New York Academic Press 1972... 

Elias, H. G., in "Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions" ... 

Elias, H. G. in "Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions" Huglin, H. B., Ed. Academic Press, London and New York 1972, pp 370-457... 

An absolute value of M for each of these branched PVAcs was obtained from light-scattering measurements. In each case five polymer solutions were made up in tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvent and a Chromatix KMX-6 LALLSP instrument was employed to measure the intensity of light scattered from these solutions at 7° to the incident laser beam. A Chromatix KMX-16 laser differential refractometer was used to determine the refractive index increments, dn/dc, of the polymer solutions under ambient conditions. 

For polymers whose Mw < 10,000, the intensity of light scattering from the solution differs so little from the neat solvent that the determination is not precise. For polymers whose Mw > 10,000, the need to measure the light scattering at very small values of 0 is beyond the capability of many older instruments. Special treatment is required for mixed solvent systems, copolymers, higher polymers, and polyelectrolytes. 

P. Debye, in Light Scattering from Dilute Polymer Solutions (D. McIntyre and F. Gornick, eds.), p. 13, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1964. 

Evans, J. M. (1972). Manipulation of light scattering data. In Huglin, M.B. (Ed.). Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions, London Academic Press, chap. 5, pp. 89-164. 

The scattered light intensity from a polymer solution arises from the fluctuations in both the solvent density and the polymer concentration. These fluctuations are considered as stable during the timescale of the measurement in the static mode of light scattering (for more details, see Evans (1972)). The light scattered from just the polymer (in excess of the light scattered from the pure solvent) is given by (Burchard, 1994)... 

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