Orientational Phenomena in Polymers

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Orientation mechanisms in the development of high-performance fibers.
• Orientation and chain relaxation of amorphous polymers and compatible polymer blends.
• Lamellar morphologies in uniaxially-drawn banded spherulites of polyethylene.
• Formation of highly oriented films by epitaxial crystallization on polymeric substrates.
• Structural basis of high-strength high-modulus polymers.
• Transformations of defect structure of polymers during drawing.
• Orientation in networklike polymer systems. The role of extremum principles.
• Chain extension and orientation: Fundamentals and relevance to processing and products.
• New developments in the production of high modulus and high strength flexible polymers.
• Lamellar morphology of polydiacetylene thin films and its correlation with chain lengths.
• The ultimate toughness of polymers. The influence of network and microscopic structure.
• Synthesis, characterization and relaxation of highly organized side-chain liquid crystalline polymers.