Gels [proceedings of the Europhysics Conference on Gels, held in Balatonszéplak, Hungary, in September 1995

This volume contains the proceedings of the Europhysics Conference on Gels, held in Balatonszeplak, Hungary, in September 1995. Topics of the contributions cover fundamentals and applications of gels formed from inorganic and organic polymers, colloidal particles and surfactant systems, new powerful methods such as scattering techniques, rheology, atomic microscopy, swelling pressure and mechanical measurements, gels with sensitivity to changes in chemical and physical environment, novel technical and biomedical applications, computer simulation and new theoretical approaches. Monte-Carlo modeling of polymer network formation....Pages 1-3 Relaxation properties of polymer gels and concept of physical networks....Pages 4-8 Characterization of helical structures in gelatin networks and model polypeptides by circular dichroism....Pages 9-14 Influence of shear rate on gelation of biopolymers solution....Pages 15-18 Photochemical activity of the bacterial reaction center in polymer-like phospholipids reverse micelles....Pages 19-25 Rheological properties of modified cellulosic polymers in semi-dilute regime: Effect of salinity and temperature....Pages 26-31 Rheological properties of schizophyllan in presence of borate ions....Pages 32-37 Molecular modelling of cellulose and hyaluronan three-dimensional structure....Pages 38-41 Bond blocks concept in kinetics of formation and destruction of polymer gels....Pages 42-46 Sol-gel transition and molecular dynamics in the systems based on the copolymer of methyl methacrylate with methacrylic acid....Pages 47-50 Titania sols and gels synthesized from reverse micelles....Pages 51-56 Gels with magnetic properties....Pages 57-63 Networks of surfactant-made physical organogels....Pages 64-70 Shear-induced polymer interactions and gelation in urea-formaldehyde polycondensates....Pages 71-75 Gelation in reactive polyester powder coating systems....Pages 76-81 Thermoreversible gelation in syndiotactic polystyrene/solvent systems....Pages 82-85 The mechanical properties of elastomers with chemical and physical junctions....Pages 86-88 Flourescence method to study gelation swelling and drying processes in gels formed by solution free radical compolymerization....Pages 89-97 A 13 C-NMR study of polyacrylic acid gels as radioactive ion sorbents....Pages 98-100 Reaction, diffusion, electric conduction and determination of fixed ions in a hydrogel....Pages 101-109 Experimental and theoretical investigation of static and dynamic chemical pattern formations in gels....Pages 110-117 Hydrogel medicinal systems of prolonged action....Pages 118-122 Hydrogels used for medicine and agriculture....Pages 123-125 An experimental approach to the determination of two-dimensional gel-point: A film balance study....Pages 126-130 Consolidation of porous structures by polyacrylic acid gels....Pages 131-137 Kinetics of sorption processes in polymer gels....Pages 138-146 Polymers for waste water treatment....Pages 147-151 This volume contains the proceedings of the Europhysics Conference on Gels, held in Balatonszepak, Hungary, in September 1995. Topics covered include fundamentals and applications of gels formed from inorganic and organic polymers, colloidal particles and surfactant systems. Guest Editor, M. Zrínyi. This Volume Contains The Proceedings Of The Europhysics Conference On Gels, Held In Balatonszeplak, Hungary, In September 1995--cover. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.