Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook

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James E. Mark
Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 21, 2007 - Technology & Engineering - 1076 pages

"...this is a very useful compendium and should have a place on every polymer scientist’s bookshelf," George Christopher Martin, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

This handbook offers concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas of physical chemistry and chemical physics. In the second edition of Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook, each chapter has been extensively updated and revised.. Each chapter has been extensively updated and revised. In addition, a dozen new chapters have been added, increasing the number of topics covered by approximately 25%. Half of these new chapters can be grouped into the general area of "Reinforcing Materials for Polymers." New chapters have increased the number of topics to cover Carbon black, Silica, Clays and other layered fillers, POSS cubic particles, Nanotubes, and Reinforcement theory. Other new chapters focus on Rotaxanes and related materials, Self-assembly materials, Foldamer supramolecular structures, Tribology, Mechanical properties of single molecules, and dendrimers. The study of complex materials is highly interdisciplinary, and new findings are published in a large selection of journals by a wide range of scientific and engineering societies. Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook brings together the work of experts from different disciplines who are contributing to the growing area of polymers and complex materials.

Key Features

  • Extensive updates and revisions to each chapter, including eleven new chapters on novel polymeric structures, reinforcing phases in polymers, and experiments on single polymer chains
  • Provides concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas of physical chemistry and chemical physics
  • Greatly reduces the effort in finding authoritative and useful information on a great range of polymers and their properties
  • Brings together the work of leading experts from different disciplines who are contributing to the rapidly growing area of polymers and complex materials
 

Contents

Names Acronyms Classes and Structures of Some Important Polymers
25
The Rotational Isomeric State Model
43
Computational Parameters
59
Richard H Friend F R S Optoelectronics Group Cavendish Laboratory Madingly Road Cambridge CB3 OHE
64
Theoretical Models and Simulations of Polymer Chains
67
Scaling Exponents and Fractal Dimensions
83
Densities Coefficients of Thermal Expansion and Compressibilities
93
Thermodynamic Properties of Proteins
103
27
479
Some Mechanical Properties of Typical PolymerBased Composites
487
Beyond Single Chain Mechanics
525
Properties of Polymers Reinforced with Silica
551
Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane POSS
577
Reinforcement Theories
599
Unit Cell Information on Some Important Polymers
619
Block Copolymer Melts
641

Heat Capacities of Polymers
145
Thermal Conductivity
155
11
165
The Glass Temperature
187
PolymerSolvent Interaction Parameter x
233
15
259
187
272
16
289
17
305
18
319
19
339
20
359
21
385
22
395
23
407
24
423
25
447
26
455
The Dendritic State
671
Polyrotaxanes
693
Recent Advances in Supramolecular Polymers
715
Arthur J Epstein Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry The Ohio State University Columbus
725
Electroluminescent Polymer Systems
757
Magnetic Piezoelectric Pyroelectric and Ferroelectric Properties of Synthetic
787
Refractive Index StressOptical Coefficient and Optical Configuration Parameter
823
Ultraviolet Radiation and Polymers
857
Flammability
889
ThermalOxidative Stability and Degradation of Polymers
927
Biodegradability of Polymers
951
Properties of Photoresist Polymers
965
Pyrolyzability of Preceramic Polymers
981
Moitreyee Sinha General Electric Global Research Center One Research Circle Niskayuna NY 12309 sinhacrd ge
1003
Surface and Interfacial Properties
1011
Permeability of Polymers to Gases and Vapors
1033
Definitions
1051

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