Author Description

"Charles M. Hansen began his work with solvents in 1962, and almost immediately began producing new and groundbreaking results. Since then, his Hansen Solubility Parameters have been extensively used and proven valuable to a variety of industries. They allow 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."--BOOK JACKET. "Hansen Solubility Parameters provides new tables of previously unpublished correlations and parameters. The author illuminates the text with practical examples relating to coatings, biological systems, pigments and fibers, and takes a general approach that makes this reference ideal for predicting compatibility, adsorption on surfaces, orientation toward materials of similar affinities (self-assembly), and other phenomena associated with solubility and affinity."--BOOK JACKET. "Chemical engineers, chemists, and biochemists will find this book - the collected work and experience of the father of its concept - intriguing for its theory and invaluable for its data."--BOOK JACKET.