Offers a comprehensive overview of recent advances in multiphase polymeric materials, ranging from theoretical aspects of polymer miscibility and phase separation kinetics to bulk, surface, and interface properties. Arrangement is in sections on theory, structures, and properties; coverage includes thermodynamics as well as kinetic aspects of phase separation of polymer blends, block copolymers, and homo-block copolymer blends; the bulk, surface, and interfacial properties of multiphase polymer materials, together with their corresponding thermal, rheological, and mechanical properties. Also included are recent developments in connection with external constraints such as light irradiation, shear flow, and the presence of networks. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Offers an overview of recent advances in multiphase polymeric materials, ranging from theoretical aspects of polymer miscibility and phase separation kinetics to bulk, surface and interface properties in polymeric materials. This work considers the possibility of a nondestructive methodology to investigative multiphase polymers based mainly on a scattering technique that is sensitive to changes in the phase behaviour of multicomponent polymer systems.
