Physical Properties of Macromolecules

Part One Glass Transitions in Amorphous Polymers.

1. Glass Transitions in Amorphous Polymers: Basic Concepts.

2. Diffusion in Amorphous Polymers Near the Glass Transition Temperature.

3. Lattice Theories for Polymer–Small-Molecule Mixtures and the Conformational Entropy Description of the Glass Transition Temperature.

4. dc Electric Field Effects on First- and Second-Order Phase Transitions in Pure Materials and Binary Mixtures.

5. Order Parameters for Glasses: Pressure and Compositional Dependence of the Glass Transition Temperature.

6. Macromolecule–Metal Complexes: Ligand Field Stabilization and Glass Transition Temperature Enhancement.

Part Two Semicrystalline Polymers and Melting Transitions.

7. Basic Concepts and Molecular Optical Anisotropy in Semicrystalline Polymers.

8. Crystallization Kinetics via Spherulitic Growth.

9. Experimental Analysis of Semicrystalline Polymers.

Part Three Mechanical Properties of Linear and Crosslinked Polymers.

10. Mechanical Properties of Viscoelastic Materials: Basic Concepts in Linear Viscoelasticity.

11. Nonlinear Stress Relaxation in Macromolecule–Metal Complexes.

12. Kinetic Analysis of Molecular Weight Distribution Functions in Linear Polymers.

13. Gaussian Statistics of Linear Chain Molecules and Crosslinked Elastomers.

14. Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics of Rubber-Like Materials.

Part Four Solid State Dynamics of Polymeric Materials.

15. Molecular Dynamics via Magnetic Resonance, Viscoelastic, and Dielectric Relaxation Phenomena.

16. Magnetic Spin Diffusion at the Nanoscale in Multiphase Polymers and Molecular Complexes.

Index.

Postface.