Prigogine / Rice Polymeric Systems, Volume 94

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-14206-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 94, 742 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Advances in Chemical Physics

It is difficult to imagine how our highly evolved technologicalsociety would function, or how life would even exist on our planet,if polymers did not exist. The intensive study of polymericsystems, which has been under way for several decades, has recentlyyielded new insights into the properties of assemblies of thesecomplex molecules and the physical principles that govern theirbehavior. These developments have included new concepts to describeaspects of the many body behavior in these systems, microscopicanalyses that bring our understanding of these systems much closerto our understanding of simple liquids and solids, and thediscovery of novel chemistry that these molecules cancatalyze.
This special topic volume of Advances in Chemical Physics surveys anumber of these recent accomplishments. Supplemented with more than250 illustrations, it provides a significant, up-to-date selectionof papers by inter-nationally recognized researchers.
Topics include:
* Theory of Polyelectrolyte Solutions
* Star Polymers: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation
* Tethered Polymer Layers
* Living Polymers
* Transport and Kinetics in Electroactive Polymers
Self-contained, authoritative, and timely, Polymeric Systems makesthe cutting edge of polymer research available to scientists inevery branch of chemical physics.
Contributors to POLYMERIC SYSTEMS
JEAN-LOUIS BARRAT, Département de Physique des Matériaux,Université Claude Bernard-Lyon l, France
A. BAUMGÄRTNER, Institut für Festkörperforschung,Germany
M. A. CARIGNANO, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, WestLafayette, Indiana
LEWIS J. FETTERS, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, ExxonResearch and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey
SANDRA C. GREER, Department of Chemical Engineering, University ofMaryland at College Park
GARY S. GREST, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, ExxonResearch and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey
JOHN S. HUANG, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, ExxonResearch and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey
JEAN-FRANÇOIS JOANNY, Institut Charles Sadron, France
MICHAEL E. G. LYONS, Electroactive Polymer Research Group, PhysicalChemistry Laboratory, University of Dublin, Ireland
M. MUTHUKUMAR, Department of Polymer Science, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
DIETER RICHTER, Institut für Festkörperforschung,Germany
I. SZLEIFER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, WestLafayette, Indiana

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prigogine, I.

Rice, Stuart A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Theory of Polyelectrolyte Solutions (J.-L.
Barrat & J.-F.
Joanny).
Star Polymers: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation (G. Grest, etal.).
Tethered Polymer Layers (I. Szleifer & M. Carignano).
Living Polymers (S. Greer).
Transport and Kinetics in Electroactive Polymers (M. Lyons).
Polymers in Disordered Media (A. Baumgärtner & M.Muthukumar).
Indexes.

Über Autor(innen)

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux dePhysique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. One of theforemost figures in his field, Professor Prigogine is the AshbelSmith Professor of Physics and Chemical Engineering at theUniversity of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of IlyaPrigogine's Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and ComplexSystems. He is the holder of many scientific prizes, 35 honorarydegrees, special chairs, and visiting professorships. In 1977 hewas awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Professor Prigogine is amember of many national academies, including the Russian NationalAcademy of Sciences. In 1989 he was given the title of viscount bythe King of Belgium.
STUART A. RICE is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished ServiceProfessor in the James Franck Institute and the Department ofChemistry of the University of Chicago. A former dean of theuniversity's Division of Physical Sciences, Professor Rice is aworld-renowned authority on chemical physics who has receivedscores of awards and honors. A former Alfred P. Sloan Fellow andGuggenheim Fellow, Professor Rice is also a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, andthe American Philosophical Society.