HSPiP eBook, software and dataset package
HSPiP: Hansen Solubility Parameters in Practice
by Steven Abbott, Charles M. Hansen and Hiroshi Yamamoto (with Richard S Valpey III)
The Solubility Sphere - the symbol of HSPiP
HSP – Hansen Solubility Parameters
40 years of successful applications of this powerful technique are captured in one package. If you don’t know about HSP then check out the simple summary on Wikipedia, or use your favourite search engine to discover just how many people in industry and academia are using HSP to solve real-world problems every day.
HSPiP is an eBook, Software, a collection of Datasets and Working Examples, a Video Tutorial Producer, all in one package. There are now HSP and other data on 10,000 chemicals in the 3rd edition. The software doesn’t just calculate and visualise HSP in 3D, it has a solvent optimizer (up to 8 solvents, plus graphing of solvent mixture changes depending on Relative Evaporation Rates, Activity Coefficients and temperature), a polymer calculator, a DIY HSP calculator, a Diffusion modeller. It even predicts HPLC retention times for you!
It’s everything you need in order to understand and apply HSP to your own field of expertise. To get a feel for its powerful capabilities (and for a fast-track training in how to use it) check out the Video Tutorials
It’s written by two experts who use HSP to solve real-world problems and who are passionate about helping others use them too.
It shows how HSP solve problems in polymers, cleaning, paints, adhesion, coatings, quantum dots, bitumen, skin safety, HPLC, noses (artificial and natural), carbon nanotubes and C60, environmental stress cracking, diffusion, the environment, nano-clays, surfactants, (cyto)-toxicity and more.
It shows why HSP combine such power with such elegant simplicity.
It provides ways to calculate the HSP of molecules of interest to you via the classic (but limited) Hoy and Van Krevelen methods, via the latest correlations with measurable parameters such as dipole moment, via the Stefanis-Panayiotou group contribution method and via the fully automated Y-MB method from Smiles or Molfile inputs.
And it costs only $840 (for an entire book and an entire software suite and an large collection of data sets) and can be downloaded/installed on any Windows XP/Vista machine. If you check out the price for other packages with far less functionality you will find that this is a bargain. Why such a small price for such a big package? Because we believe that the time is right for HSP to become mainstream, and want to leave prospective users with no excuse for not getting to know about HSP. There will be free updates to a reasonable degree.
Click to find out how to purchase and install the package.
Because this is an all-electronic package you have access to free updates of the eBook and software “within reason”. We will email you (this is the only unsolicited email we send to our customers) when fresh updates are available and you download the latest package and are ready to go. This is an essential feature of the package. We believe that the HSP community can help expand and refine the capabilities of the technique and we want the package to grow with the community. If we make a major upgrade to HSPiP we may ask existing customers to pay a modest upgrade fee.
And the package comes with a guarantee from Steven Abbott. To quote from the eBook:
“I am taking personal responsibility for some of the more exploratory ideas in the book and software. I am therefore offering a personal guarantee that when you show that the ideas are wrong I will (a) upgrade the relevant section(s) of the book/software and (b) make it clear that I was wrong and (c) acknowledge you (if you wish) as the source of the correction. Science thrives on its falsifiability and I positively welcome the chance for myself and the HSP community to learn from the refutation of ideas which seem to me to be reasonable on the basis of the evidence to hand at the time of writing.”
For information on HSPiP
E-mail: support@hansen-solubility.com
About the authors
Professor Steven Abbott is a specialist in writing software that captures technically complex issue and enables real-world users to reach practical solutions to complex problems. He is also Visiting Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds. He has a PhD in Chemistry from Oxford University (but did the work for it at Harvard University) and has worked extensively in the coating and printing industries. His current interests include environmentally safer solvents for the printing industry, bio-mimetic nanosurfaces, nanoparticle dispersions for high-performance coatings as well as the continuing development of his technical software.
Dr Charles M. Hansen is in a state of active semi-retirement working from his residence as consultant and author, having recently completed a second edition of Hansen Solublilty Parameters: A User’s Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2007. He holds a B.Ch.E from the University of Louisville, an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, and lic. techn. and dr. techn. degrees from the Technical University of Denmark. He has worked extensively with numerous organisations in the coatings, plastics, and related industries with employment by PPG Industries in the USA, and the Scandinavian Paint and Printing Ink Institute and FORCE Technology, both in Denmark.
Dr Hiroshi Yamamoto is a senior researcher at Asahi Glass Corporation. He has a PhD from Nihon University “Molecular design of CFC alternatives using Chemo-Informatics” and has been a Visiting Associate at CalTech. His expertise includes neural networks and data mining for thermodynamic and chemical properties.
See link for chemical properties estimations: http://www.pirika.com
Dr Richard S Valpey III is Research Associate at SC Johnson Inc. He has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from The University of Rochester and has worked extensively with consumer products. His current research interests include environmentally friendly formulations for consumer products, liquid atomization and sprays, and aerosol science and technology.