HSPiP Video Tutorials

Amazingly the software has built-in video recording capabilities. This means that the software can create its own tutorials. This is very useful for your own in-house training on how to use HSP for your applications.

A few examples that show the power of the Sphere software and the power of HSP are given below. Earphones are recommended.

Calculating the basic HSP Sphere
How to take the solubility data in a range of solvents and calculate the HSP sphere position and radius – with one click of a mouse.
The Basic Sphere.wmv

Getting started
How do you go about measuring the HSP of your first polymer, pigment or nanoparticle?
Getting Started.wmv

HSP and Polymers
How to use the big database of polymers to explore interactions of polymers with solvents and with each other.
Polymers.wmv

Lots and lots of data
You need data to use HSPiP. We’ve provided lots of it (10,000 chemicals) – and made it convenient for you to incorporate it in your own work. 
Solvent Data.wmv

Solvent optimization
How the software makes it easy to find an optimum solvent blend to match a particular HSP target.
Optimizer.wmv

Solvent mixture evaporation
How the software makes it easy to see how the different solvents in a blend evaporate at different rates and therefore how the HSP change during drying. There is a large database of RER (Relative Evaporation Rates) provided with the package. The modeller can include Activity Coefficient effects (themselves calculated using HSP!) and temperature effects of the HSP (see the tutorial below) and change in RER (using a large database of Antoine Coefficients included with the package).
Evaporation.wmv

Do It Yourself HSP
How the software gives you many ways to produce your own HSP values, including the classic Hoy and Van Krevelen methods (which are not recommended due to more recent developments) along with the latest Stefanis-Panayiotou (2008) method, and the Yamamoto Molecular Breaking method (Y-MB) for polymers as well.
DIY.wmv

The following two links show the fully automated Y-MB method in operation for chemicals and for polymers:
Automatic HSP.wmv

Automatic Polymer HSP.wmv

Utilities
The handy utilities in the program that make it so easy to use.
Utilities.wmv

HSE Read-Across 
Making smart HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) decisions often depends on the ability to “read across” from the properties of a known molecule to those of an unknown. HSPiP makes this easy to do by producing a side-by-side comparison of chemical, functional, vapour pressure and solubility data. 
HSE Read Across.wmv

HPLC
Using HSP to understand and predict HPLC retention times.
HPLC.wmv

IGC 
Using HSP to understand and predict IGC (Inverse Gas Chromatography) retention times. 
IGC.wmv

GC and NMR 
HSPiP can predict GCRI (Gas Chromatography Retention Indices) to give you predictions of where molecules will elute. And if you need to find the right deuterated solvent for your NMR experiments, the Solvent Optimizer comes to your rescue with a list of the commonly available deuterated solvents. 
GC and NMR.wmv

Diffusion modeller
A brief taste of the powerful diffusion modeller that handles the full complexity of absorption and desorption of solvents into polymers.
Diffusion.wmv

Temperature effects
HSP are defined at 25ºC. If you do experiments at other temperatures you want to know what the HSP values are at those temperatures. The program lets you do this very easily, using a database of thermal expansion coefficient values to calculate the changes according to the well-known Hansen & Beerbower formulae.
Temperatures.wmv

Teas plot 
Some people find the Teas plot useful. We’ve added the capability if it’s important to you. 
Teas Plot.wmv