Introduction to Physical Polymer ScienceAn Updated Edition of the Classic Text Polymers constitute the basis for the plastics, rubber, adhesives, fiber, and coating industries. The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Physical Polymer Science acknowledges the industrial success of polymers and the advancements made in the field while continuing to deliver the comprehensive introduction to polymer science that made its predecessors classic texts. The Fourth Edition continues its coverage of amorphous and crystalline materials, glass transitions, rubber elasticity, and mechanical behavior, and offers updated discussions of polymer blends, composites, and interfaces, as well as such basics as molecular weight determination. Thus, interrelationships among molecular structure, morphology, and mechanical behavior of polymers continue to provide much of the value of the book. Newly introduced topics include:
In addition, new sections have been included on fire retardancy, friction and wear, optical tweezers, and more. Introduction to Physical Polymer Science, Fourth Edition provides both an essential introduction to the field as well as an entry point to the latest research and developments in polymer science and engineering, making it an indispensable text for chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, and polymer science and engineering students and professionals. |
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... Materials 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 687 Classification Schemes for Multicomponent Polymeric Materials / 688 Miscible and Immiscible Polymer Pairs / 692 The Glass Transition Behavior of Multicomponent Polymer Materials ...
... Materials / 762 14.3 14.4 14.5 Polymer and Polymer Blend Aspects of Bread Doughs / 765 Natural Product Polymers / 769 Dendritic Polymers and Other Novel Polymeric Structures / 773 Polymers in Supercritical Fluids / 779 Electrical ...
... materials and applications. Two of the most important advances are in the fields of nanocomposites and biopolymers ... Materials Science and Engineering, as well as the newly renamed Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and ...
... materials, and other fields as well. Chemically, polymers are long-chain molecules of very high molecular weight, often measured in the hundreds of thousands. For this reason, the term “macromolecules” is frequently used when referring ...
... materials as plastics and rubber have the properties they do. 1.7 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL POLYMERS Like most other technological developments, polymers were first used on an empirical basis, with only a very incomplete ...
Contents
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3 Dilute Solution Thermodynamics Molecular Weights and Sizes | 71 |
4 Concentrated Solutions Phase Separation Behavior and Diffusion | 145 |
5 The Amorphous State | 197 |
6 The Crystalline State | 239 |
7 Polymers in the Liquid Crystalline State | 325 |
8 GlassRubber Transition Behavior | 349 |
9 Crosslinked Polymers and Rubber Elasticity | 427 |
10 Polymer Viscoelasticity and Rheology | 507 |
11 Mechanical Behavior of Polymers | 557 |
12 Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces | 613 |
13 Multicomponent Polymeric Materials | 687 |
14 Modern Polymer Topics | 757 |
Index | 827 |