Achieving a sustainable future development through strategies less harmful to environment is a major focus of recent research initiatives. At the same time, the development of sustainable, advanced materials requires a continuous effort to extend the limits of the analytical techniques and their ability to accommodate targeted range of applications. Comprehensive characterization of materials is a crucial step, especially challenging in the case of polymers derived from natural products, where variations due to different sources and extraction conditions, as well as inherent instability and tendency to self-aggregate may affect performance. In this context, the use of light scattering detection as means to follow time-dependent processes such as aggregation, phase separation, degradation, dissolution, and polymerization reactions allows fundamental relationships between intra- and interparticle characteristics of the evolving material to be captured and quantified in real time. The ability to monitor the time dependence of the light scattered by molecules is useful in understanding kinetics of controlled polymer synthesis, stability studies of pharmaceutical, food and other complex systems, assessment of degradation/association kinetics by providing means to tune the monitored process parameters to achieve desired material properties.

Monitoring light scattering signatures as means to tune parameters of evolving materials in time-dependent processes

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