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Summary
Summary
Despite the great strides in nonlinear dynamics over the past 40 years, applying nonlinear dynamics to polymeric systems has not received much attention. This book addresses this absence by covering present theory, modeling, and experiments of nonlinear dynamics in polymeric systems. Oscillating chemical reactions, propagating fronts, far-from equilibrium pattern formation, Turing structures, and chaos are but some of the exotic phenomena discussed in this book.
The book is divided into six sections. The first section introduces nonlinear dynamics and shows how polymeric systems exhibit comparable phenomena. The second section addresses phenomena in gels in which mechanical effects can be important. Coupling gels and chemistry allow some new phenomena and potentially useful devices. The third section reviews frontal polymerization and includes chapters on new chemistry and new modeling. The fourth section focuses on interfacial systems, including polymer-like surfactant systems, laser excited systems, and dewetting phenomena. Phase separation is discussed in the fifth section. Finally, oscillating reactions-the prototypical nonlinear chemical dynamical systems-close the book.
Author Notes
John A. Pojman is at University of Southern Mississippi. Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata is at Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xi |
Background | |
1. Nonlinear Dynamics and Polymeric Systems: An Overview | p. 2 |
2. Self-Organization of Hierarchy: Dissipative-Structure Assisted Self-Assembly of Metal Nanoparticles in Polymer Matrices | p. 16 |
Gels | |
3. Synchronization of Self-Oscillation in Polymer Chains and the Cross-Linked Network | p. 30 |
4. A Model for a Hydrogel-Enzyme Chemomechanical Oscillator | p. 44 |
5. A Model for Self-Oscillating Miniaturized Gels | p. 58 |
6. Measurement of Force Produced by a pH-Responsive Hydrogel in a pH Oscillator | p. 71 |
7. Spontaneous Deformations in Polymer Gels Driven by Chemomechanical Instabilities | p. 80 |
8. Pattern Formation in a Complex Reaction System by Chemomechanical Coupling | p. 94 |
Frontal Polymerization | |
9. Nonlinear Dynamics in Frontal Polymerization | p. 106 |
10. Recent Chemical Advances in Frontal Polymerization | p. 121 |
11. Spontaneous Frontal Polymerization: Propagating Front Spontaneously Generated by Locally Autoaccelerated Free-Radical Polymerization | p. 135 |
12. Bifurcation Analysis of Polymerization Fronts | p. 147 |
13. "Cold" Ignition of Combustionlike Waves of Cryopolymerization and Other Reactions in Solids | p. 160 |
14. Evolution of Isothermal Polymerization Fronts via Laser Line Deflection and Predictive Modeling | p. 169 |
Interfacial Systems | |
15. Pattern Formation by Rim Instability in Dewetting Polymer Thin Films | p. 186 |
16. Hierarchic Mesoscopic Patterns of Dye Aggregates in Self-Organized Dewetted Films | p. 199 |
17. Nanometer Expansion and Contraction Dynamics of Polymer Films Induced by Nanosecond Laser Excitation | p. 212 |
18. Nonlinear Dynamics in Surfactant Systems | p. 226 |
19. Droplet Microstructure and String Stability in Sheared Emulsions: Role of Finite-Size Effects | p. 236 |
20. Viscous Fingering of Silica Suspensions Dispersed in Polymer Fluids | p. 250 |
Phase Separation | |
21. Controlled Pattern Formation in Some Block Copolymer Systems | p. 264 |
22. Phase Separation of Polymer Blends Driven by Temporally and Spatially Periodic Forcing | p. 276 |
Oscillatory Systems | |
23. Perturbation of the Oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction with Polyethylene Glycol | p. 292 |
24. Nonlinear Dynamics in Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor Polymerization | p. 309 |
Indexes | |
Author Index | p. 327 |
Subject Index | p. 329 |