The Theory of Polymer Dynamics'This book is destined to join the classics of polymer science...an essential purchase for any serious student of polymer dynamics.' British Polymer Journal |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Eigenfunctions of the Smoluchowski equation | 21 |
1 | 30 |
References | 43 |
III The Oseen tensor | 88 |
1 The VerdierStockmayer model | 129 |
IV Polarizability tensor of a Gaussian chain | 135 |
I Transformation to collective coordinates | 180 |
References | 283 |
DILUTE SOLUTIONS OF RIGID RODLIKE | 289 |
I Derivation of the Smoluchowski equation by | 318 |
SEMIDILUTE SOLUTIONS OF RIGID RODLIKE | 324 |
1 Tube dilation by orientational ordering | 345 |
References | 379 |
| 381 | |
AUTHOR INDEX | 386 |
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