Characterization of Solid Polymers edited by S. J. Spells, Chapman & Hall, London 1994, 368 pp, hardcover £ 69, ISBN 0-412-58490-5.

✍ Scribed by H. W. Spiess

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 54 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-7648
• DOI: 10.1002/actp.1995.010460217

✦ Synopsis

The development of new and the optimization of existing polymer materials requires powerful characterization methods. In view of the enormous variety of polymer applications, many different aspects have to be probed, such as chain conformation, alignment, dynamics and phase separation. However, polymer structure and organization are of interest not only for the bulk, but also at the surface of the polymer or in thin polymer films. This means that enormous ranges of length scales (100 pm to meters) and time scales (1 ps to hours) have to be covered. Clearly, these requirements cannot be met by a single technique alone but call for the combined use of many. However, for students of polymer science and even for experienced scientists it becomes increasingly difficult to follow the rapid development of improved tools for polymer characterization.