ABSTRACT
Cohesion energy parameters have been used for many purposes since Hildebrand and Scott wrote their pioneering books.
Cohesion energy parameters, initially called solubility parameters, have been successfully used in the coatings industry to predict solubility for over 30 years. The pioneering work of Hildebrand and Scott in the 1950s
was quickly taken up by Burrell
with considerable success. Some problems still remained. Many of these, including simultaneously accounting for both permanent dipole interactions and hydrogen bonding, were overcome by the division of the Hildebrand solubility parameter itself into three parts by Hansen.
