Structure-Property Relationships of Polymeric Solids

✍ Scribed by A. Moreno, E. Baer (auth.), Anne Hiltner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Polymer Science and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a collection of original research papers which were presented in honor of the Bordon Award recipient, Professor Eric Baer, on the occasion of the 55th Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1981). The contributors are present or former colleagues and students who have worked with him in the Department of Macromolecular Science at Case Institute of Technology of Case Western Reserve University. Throughout his work, Eric Baer has attempted to find the relation­ ships of solid state structure and hierarchy to the resultant pro­ perties from which specific functions are derived. Although he has studied many seemingly unrelated subjects, from irreversible de­ formation, mechanics and yield processes in amorphous polymeric solids to structural organization and mechanical function of ten­ don, his unique goal has been to develop models from the real structure that would allow a quantitative description of properties. Today, this area of "microscience" is rapidly expanding as new and sophisticated applications of polymeric materials with multifunc­ tional properties are emerging from our understanding and control of the solid state. The wide-ranging ideas and the original­ ity of Professor Baer's contributions have stimulated many new concepts which are now widely accepted in the field of high polymers. The contributions to this volume represent many of the areas which he has explored.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Crazing in Thin Films of “Monodisperse” Polystyrene....Pages 1-24
Thermoreversible Gelation of Crystallisable Polymers and Its Relevance for Applications....Pages 25-57
Conformational Characterization of the Single Crystal Surface....Pages 59-73
Substitution Reactions on Halogenated Polyethylene....Pages 75-83
Structure Determination of Crosspolymerized Poly(1,11-Dodecadiyne)....Pages 85-93
Structure and Morphology of Nascent Polyethylenes Obtained by TiCl 3 Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalyst....Pages 95-113
Crystal Transformation, Piezoelectricity, and Ferroelectric Polarization Reversal in Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride)....Pages 115-137
Crystal Nucleation in Flowing Polymer Melts....Pages 139-153
Flow-Induced Crystallization and Orientation from the Melt....Pages 155-173
Hydrostatic Extrusion of Glass Reinforced and Unreinforced Celcon® POM....Pages 175-191
The Interaction of Liquid Environments with Hard Elastic High Impact Polystyrene....Pages 193-204
Transmission Electron Microscope Studies of Polymers Stained with Ruthenium and Osmium Tetroxide....Pages 205-213
The Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) State Diagram and Its Role in Determining Structure/Property Relationships in Thermosetting Systems....Pages 215-225
Network Development in Films Cast from Emulsions of Polydimethylsiloxane....Pages 227-233
The Effect of Microcrazing on Fatigue Crack Propagation in Polymers....Pages 235-246
Advances in Strength Prediction for Short-Fiber Reinforced Plastics....Pages 247-254
Thermally Stimulated Current of Solid Pullulan....Pages 255-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-270

✦ Subjects

Physics, general