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Summary
Summary
Providing a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art advanced research in the field, Polymer Physics explores the interrelationships among polymer structure, morphology, and physical and mechanical behavior. Featuring contributions from renowned experts, the book covers the basics of important areas in polymer physics while projecting into the future, making it a valuable resource for students and chemists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and polymer scientists as well as professionals in related industries.
Author Notes
Leszek A. Utracki, PhD, is a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, Industrial Materials Institute, and a former adjunct professor at McGill University, Department of Chemical Engineering, in Montreal, Quebec. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books and has written forty-eight book chapters, hundreds of referenced and non-referenced journal articles, and meeting proceedings.
Alexander M. Jamieson, PhD, is Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has written hundreds of articles in referenced journals and three book chapters.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| A Life with Polymers | p. 1 |
| Part I Rheology | p. 15 |
| 1 Newtonian Viscosity of Dilute, Semidilute, and Concentrated Polymer Solutions | p. 17 |
| 2 Polymer and Surfactant Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flows | p. 89 |
| 3 Nanorheology of Polymer Nanoalloys and Nanocomposites | p. 129 |
| 4 Volume Relaxation and the Lattice-Hole Model | p. 161 |
| 5 Dynamics of Materials at the Nanoscale: Small-Molecule Liquids and Polymer Films | p. 191 |
| Part II Thermodynamics | p. 225 |
| 6 Equations of State and Free-Volume Content | p. 227 |
| 7 Spatial Configuration and Thermodynamic Characteristics of Main-Chain Liquid Crystals | p. 283 |
| 8 Bulk and Surface Properties of Random Copolymers in View of the Simha-Somcynsky Equation of State | p. 323 |
| 9 Physical Aging | p. 357 |
| Part III Position Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy | p. 391 |
| 10 Morphology of Free-Volume Holes in Amorphous Polymers by Means of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy | p. 393 |
| 11 Local Free-Volume Distribution from PALS and Dynamics of Polymers | p. 421 |
| 12 Positron Annihilation Lifetime Studies of Free Volume in Heterogeneous Polymer Systems | p. 473 |
| Part IV Physics of the Polymeric Nanocomposites | p. 523 |
| 13 Structure-Property Relationships of Nanocomposites | p. 525 |
| 14 Free Volume in Molten and Glassy Polymers and Nanocomposites | p. 553 |
| 15 Metal Particles Confined in Polymeric Matrices | p. 605 |
| 16 Rheology of Polymers with Nanofillers | p. 639 |
| Appendix A Abbreviations and Notations | p. 709 |
| Appendix B Robert Simha Publications | p. 737 |
| Subject Index | p. 755 |
