Frontiers in Polymer Science

Laudatio.- On polymer solution thermodynamics.- Interaction between block copolymer micelles in solution.- Temperature - concentration dependence of polyvinyl acetate gels with respect to the collapse phenomenon.- Polymorphic phase transition and monomolecular spreading of synthetic phospholipids.- Adsorption-entanglement layers in flowing high-molecular weight polymer solutions.- Influence of plug porosity on streaming potential measurements.- Effect of the initiator acetyl perchlorate upon the morphology, kinetics and mechanisms of crystal growth of poly(oxymethylene).- Study on the copolymerization of phenyl ester-type monomrs comprising mesogenic groups in the side chain.- Double-diffuisve fluctuations and the v 3/4-law of proton spin-lattice relaxation in biopolymers.- Distribution of correlation times in glassy polymers from pulsed deuteron NMR.- A reinvestigation of the hypersonic properties and the specific heat of PMMA around the quasi-static glass transition.- Atomistic calculation of chain conformations and crystal structures of polyoxymethylene.- Polyethylene-polystyrene gradient polymers.- Desmeared, slit-smeared and projected SAXS: a comparison of various methods of evaluation for segmented polyurethanes.- Phase separation in incompatible polymer blends: polypropylene-polyethylene system.- Structure and properties of segmented polyamides.- Structure and anisotropy in PC.- Orientation relaxation of fluorescent molecules in uniaxially drawn PVC-films during annealing.- Preferred orientation of the internal structure of carbon layers in carbon fibers.- Density, energy and entropy of defects in the crystalline regions of crosslinked polyethylene).- Investigation of the deformation and relaxation of various polyethylenes by X-ray diffraction.- Influence of structural defects on viscoelastic properties of poly(propylene).- Constructions of master curves and master surfaces starting with experimental data.- Influence of physical aging at constant temperature on the shear creep of amorphous polymers.