Summary

Representing the combined efforts of scientists from academic and industrial laboratories in the US and Europe, this comprehensive volume covers the latest developments in siloxane polymers in 14 chapters: polymerization; siloxane copolymers; cyclic siloxane polymers; organofunctional siloxanes; depolymerization, degradation and thermal properties of siloxane polymers; liquid-crystal siloxanes; surface chemistry and applications; theoretical aspects of conformation-dependent properties; dielectric properties of siloxanes; viscoelastic and ultrasonic studies of linear and cyclic polydimethylsiloxane; NMR approach to siloxane properties--melts, gels, silica mixtures; cross-linking of polymethylsiloxanes; siloxane elastomers; and interpreting networks of polydimethylsiloxane. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.