Physical Properties of Macromolecules

Preface.
Part One Glass Transitions in Amorphous Polymers.
1. Glass Transitions in Amorphous Polymers: Basic Concepts.
2. Diffusion in Amorphous Polymers Near the Glass TransitionTemperature.
3. Lattice Theories for Polymer-Small-Molecule Mixturesand the Conformational Entropy Description of the Glass TransitionTemperature.
4. dc Electric Field Effects on First- and Second-Order PhaseTransitions in Pure Materials and Binary Mixtures.
5. Order Parameters for Glasses: Pressure and CompositionalDependence of the Glass Transition Temperature.
6. Macromolecule-Metal Complexes: Ligand FieldStabilization and Glass Transition Temperature Enhancement.
Part Two Semicrystalline Polymers and MeltingTransitions.
7. Basic Concepts and Molecular Optical Anisotropy inSemicrystalline Polymers.
8. Crystallization Kinetics via Spherulitic Growth.
9. Experimental Analysis of Semicrystalline Polymers.
Part Three Mechanical Properties of Linear and CrosslinkedPolymers.
10. Mechanical Properties of Viscoelastic Materials: BasicConcepts in Linear Viscoelasticity.
11. Nonlinear Stress Relaxation in Macromolecule-MetalComplexes.
12. Kinetic Analysis of Molecular Weight Distribution Functionsin Linear Polymers.
13. Gaussian Statistics of Linear Chain Molecules andCrosslinked Elastomers.
14. Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics of Rubber-LikeMaterials.
Part Four Solid State Dynamics of PolymericMaterials.
15. Molecular Dynamics via Magnetic Resonance, Viscoelastic, andDielectric Relaxation Phenomena.
16. Magnetic Spin Diffusion at the Nanoscale in MultiphasePolymers and Molecular Complexes.
Index.
Postface.