Self-order and Form in Polymeric Materials

1995
ISBN: 978-0-412-62450-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1010 g

This multicontributor volume reviews the state-of-the-art in this important area of polymer structure. The understanding of polymer structure and morphology is examined from both theoretical and experimental viewpoints. Includes crystalline, amorphous and liquid crystalline polymers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keller, A.

Windle, A. H.

Warner, M.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der Kunststoffe und Polymere
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Polymerwerkstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Sir Charles Frank. The size factor in phase transitions: its role in polymer crystal formation and wider implications - A Keller, M Hikosaka, S Rastogi, A Toda and P J Barham. Crystallographic and structural roots of variation in polymer structure and morphology - B Lotz. Lamellae and their organisation in melt-crystallized polymers - D C Bassett. Self-order in flexible non-mesogenic macromolecules - Y K Godovsky and N N Makarova. Spontaneous ordering in polymeric nematic liquids and solids - M Warner. Modelling of form in thermotropic polymers - A H Windle, H E Assender, M S Lavine. Local order in polymer glasses and melts - G R Mitchell, B Rosi-Schwartz and D J Ward. Phase behaviour and structure in solutions of vinyl polymers - H Berghmans and F Deberdt. Formation of microstructure in polymer blocks - J S Higgins. Phase morphology in block copolymer systems - E L Thomas and R L Lescanec. Macromolecular order in biology - Sir Aaron Klug.