Structure-Property Relationships of Polymeric Solids

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Crazing in Thin Films of “Monodisperse” Polystyrene

   • A. Moreno, E. Baer

   Pages 1-24

3. Thermoreversible Gelation of Crystallisable Polymers and Its Relevance for Applications

   • A. Keller

   Pages 25-57

4. Conformational Characterization of the Single Crystal Surface

   • Y. A. Chang, A. Hiltner

   Pages 59-73

5. Substitution Reactions on Halogenated Polyethylene

   • Ian R. Harrison, Jacqueline S. Butler, J. P. Runt

   Pages 75-83

6. Structure Determination of Crosspolymerized Poly(1,11-Dodecadiyne)

   • M. Thakur, Jerome B. Lando

   Pages 85-93

7. Structure and Morphology of Nascent Polyethylenes Obtained by TiCl3 Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalyst

   • A. Muñoz-Escalona, C. Villamizar, P. Frias

   Pages 95-113

8. Crystal Transformation, Piezoelectricity, and Ferroelectric Polarization Reversal in Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride)

   • Kasumi Matsushige, Tetuo Takemura

   Pages 115-137

9. Crystal Nucleation in Flowing Polymer Melts

   • Mark S. Pucci, Stephen H. Carr

   Pages 139-153

10. Flow-Induced Crystallization and Orientation from the Melt

    • J. R. Collier, K. Lakshmanan, L. Ankrom, S. K. Upadhyayula

    Pages 155-173

11. Hydrostatic Extrusion of Glass Reinforced and Unreinforced Celcon® POM

    • J. Kastelic, A. Buckley, P. Hope, I. Ward

    Pages 175-191

12. The Interaction of Liquid Environments with Hard Elastic High Impact Polystyrene

    • Kim Walton, Abdelsamie Moet, Eric Baer

    Pages 193-204

13. Transmission Electron Microscope Studies of Polymers Stained with Ruthenium and Osmium Tetroxide

    • J. S. Trent, P. R. Couchman, J. I. Scheinbeim

    Pages 205-213

14. The Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) State Diagram and Its Role in Determining Structure/Property Relationships in Thermosetting Systems

    • John K. Gillham

    Pages 215-225

15. Network Development in Films Cast from Emulsions of Polydimethylsiloxane

    • Daniel Graiver, John C. Saam, Madhu Baile

    Pages 227-233

16. The Effect of Microcrazing on Fatigue Crack Propagation in Polymers

    • A. Chudnovsky, A. Moet, I. Palley, E. Baer

    Pages 235-246

17. Advances in Strength Prediction for Short-Fiber Reinforced Plastics

    • J. L. Kardos

    Pages 247-254

18. Thermally Stimulated Current of Solid Pullulan

    • K. Nishinari, D. Chatain, C. Lacabanne

    Pages 255-268

19. Back Matter

    Pages 269-270

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This book contains a collection of original research papers which were presented in honor of the Bordon Award recipient, Professor Eric Baer, on the occasion of the 55th Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1981). The contributors are present or former colleagues and students who have worked with him in the Department of Macromolecular Science at Case Institute of Technology of Case Western Reserve University. Throughout his work, Eric Baer has attempted to find the relation­ ships of solid state structure and hierarchy to the resultant pro­ perties from which specific functions are derived. Although he has studied many seemingly unrelated subjects, from irreversible de­ formation, mechanics and yield processes in amorphous polymeric solids to structural organization and mechanical function of ten­ don, his unique goal has been to develop models from the real structure that would allow a quantitative description of properties. Today, this area of "microscience" is rapidly expanding as new and sophisticated applications of polymeric materials with multifunc­ tional properties are emerging from our understanding and control of the solid state. The wide-ranging ideas and the original­ ity of Professor Baer's contributions have stimulated many new concepts which are now widely accepted in the field of high polymers. The contributions to this volume represent many of the areas which he has explored.

• Extrusion
• High Impact Polystyrene
• Polydimethylsiloxan
• electricity
• electron
• mechanics
• morphology
• plastics
• polyethylene
• polymer
• thermoset

• Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

  Anne Hiltner

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