HSPiP: The eBook

The eBook is built into the software so that you can read the text and run the examples in the text at the same time. The eBook reader lets you navigate easily to chapters and has a full text-search facility. You can change the font size to balance ease of viewing with the amount of information viewed on the screen.
The chapters are:
Introduction & Guarantee by Steven Abbott
Chapter 1 The Minimum Possible Theory (Simple Introduction)
Why are HSP so powerful and why do 3 numbers turn out to be so fundamentally useful? You get the minimum theory for the maximum understanding.
Chapter 2 The Sphere (The Preferred Method of Visualizing)
How to understand HSP in 3 dimensions, using the powerful Sphere software that comes as part of the package.
Chapter 3 Your first HSP Sphere (Determining the HSP Sphere)
Helping you to get started
Chapter 4 Coming clean (Finding Good Solvents)
How HSP will help you quickly find a solvent to dissolve a specific polymer or ink.
Chapter 5 Safer, Faster, Cheaper (Optimizing Solvent Formulations)
Using the Solvent Optimizer to find a safer, faster, cheaper solvent blend.
Chapter 6 Coming together (Polymer Compatibility)
How HSP help to make incompatible polymers compatible.
Chapter 7 Sticking, Flowing and Dissolving (HSP and Adhesion, Viscosity and Dissolving)
How HSP is at the heart of real-world adhesion.
Chapter 8 Shades of Black (Designed Partial Compatibility - Bitumen)
How HSP can help with apparently intractable materials such as bitumen which require just the right interactions with polymers to make them suitable for road surfaces.
Chapter 9 Insoluble solubility parameters (HSP for Pigment Surfaces)
Why “solubility” parameters are so useful for insoluble materials such as carbon black.
Chapter 10 Cracks in the system (Environmental Stress Cracking)
How to recognise the potential for long-term “environmental stress cracking” problems with your polymers.
Chapter 11 Let’s make this perfectly clear (Formulating clear automotive lacquers)
Using HSP to design a high-gloss coating formulation.
Chapter 12 That’s swell (HSP and Swelling)
Understanding which solvents will swell rubbers or polymers – and how to optimize an e-beam resist.
Chapter 13 Skin deep (HSP and Skin Absorption)
Using HSP to help understand skin and glove safety.
Chapter 14 HSP and Diffusion
A powerful but friendly diffusion modeler comes with the package so you can understand the complexities of absorption, desorption and permeation of solvents – and why HSP provide insights into the phenomena.
Chapter 15 It’s your call (Rational Selection of Chemical Protective Gloves)
Using HSP to help understand glove safety with prediction of breakthrough times.
Chapter 16 Gloves: from minimum data to maximum insight (Exploring Glove Permeation)
The powerful but friendly diffusion modeler allows estimation of concentration dependent diffusion coefficients from permeation data.
Chapter 17 Saving the planet (Finding Improved Environmental Solutions)
Using HSP for a big variety of Environmental issues.
Chapter 18 HSP for ionic liquids (How to Assign HSP to New Materials)
How to experimentally find the HSP of liquids exemplified by ionic liquids.
Chapter 19 Cleaning by numbers (A Discourse on HSP for Surfactants)
HSP and surfactants, including the first published list of HSP values for a large range of surfactants.
Chapter 20 Chromatography – HSP creator and user (Retention Times and Measuring HSP)
HSP and chromatography – including a working HPLC retention time modeller.
Chapter 21 Noses artificial and natural (HSP for Sensors Both Live and Artificial)
How HSP offer insights into odour detection.
Chapter 22 Attacking DNA (HSP for DNA , Drugs, and Biological Membranes Compared)
Insights into cytotoxicity and what it takes to pass cell walls
Chapter 23 HSP for Pharma and Cosmetic applications
Doing it better than LogP, LogD and LogS
Chapter 24 Going nano (Nanosize is an Advantage in HSP Characterizations)
Applying HSP to carbon nanotubes, C60, nano-clays and Quantum Dots.
Chapter 25 DIY HSP (Methods to Calculate/Estimate Your Own HSP)
Ways to calculate HSP for your molecules, including implementations of all common methods plus the Stefanis-Panayiotou method and the Y-MB (Yamamoto - Molecular Breaking) method for larger molecules.
Chapter 26 Predictions (Many Physical Properties are Correlated with HSP
Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) parameters predicted
Chapter 27 The next steps (What Is Planned and Asked For)
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