Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on the macromolecular condensed state / Renyuan Qian.

Author

Qian, Renyuan

Publication

River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2002.

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Details

Description

viii, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Polymer liquid crystals
• Crystalline polymers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Process of Formation of the Macromolecular Condensed State from Isolated Coils in a Dilute Solution -- 1.1. Concentration Regimes -- 1.2. Dynamic Contact Concentration -- 1.3. Dilute and Semidilute Solutions -- 1.4. Concentrated Solutions, c[subscript e] and c[superscript +] -- 1.5. Formation of a Solid State Polymer from Solution -- 2. Amorphous State -- 2.1. Fluid State and Chain Entanglement -- 2.2. Glass Transition Temperature -- 2.3. Cooperative Internal Rotations -- 2.4. Cohesional Entanglement -- 2.5. Sub-T[subscript g] Annealing -- 2.6. GOLR State -- 2.7. Molecular Relaxation -- 2.8. Yielding and Postyield Deformation -- 3. Liquid Crystalline State -- 3.1. Low Molar Mass Liquid Crystalline Compounds and Liquid Crystalline State of Polymers -- 3.2. Formation of a Polymeric Nematic Phase and Its Isotropization -- 3.3. Band Texture Formation -- 3.4. Disclinations -- 4. Polymer Crystallization Process --
• 4.1. Controversies and the Basic Physical Issue -- 4.2. Crystallization from Dilute Solution -- 4.3. Crystallization from a Melt and from a Rubbery State -- 4.4. Crystallization from an Oriented Amorphous State -- 4.5. Some Special Cases -- 5. Single Chain Condensed State -- 5.1. Single Chain Condensed State and Interpenetrated Multichain Condensed State -- 5.2. Methods of Preparing Single Chain Particles -- 5.3. Single Chain Single Crystal -- 5.4. Single Chain Glass -- 5.5. Single Chain in the Rubbery State -- 5.6. Transition from Single Chain Condensed State to Interpenetrated Multichain Condensed State.

ISBN

9810249152

OCLC

• ocm52068582
• SCSB-4798505

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries