Flow-Induced Structure in Polymers

by Nakatani, Alan I.; Dadmun, Mark D.

• ISBN13: 9780841232303
• ISBN10: 084123230X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-05-05
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

Examines recent advances in understanding the structures of polymer melts, polymer solutions, block copolymers, liquid crystalline polymers, colloid suspensions, and multiphase systems subjected to flow. Reports on advances in instrumental techniques, characterization, theories, and applications. An overview chapter provides a guide and reference source to related reviews and identifies similarities in flow behavior between various materials science disciplines.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Flow-Induced Structures in Polymers

Enhancement of Concentration Fluctuations in Solutions Subject to External Fields

String Phase in Semidilute Polystyrene Solutions Under Steady Shear Flow

Small Angle Neutron Scattering from Sheared Semidilute

Solutions: Butterfly Effect

Structural Evolution

Flow-Induced Structuring and Conformational Rearrangements in Flexible and Semiflexible Polymer Solutions

Changes of Macromolecular Chain Conformations Induced by Shear Flow

Effect of Flow on Polymer-Polymer Miscibility

Effect of Shear Deformation on Spinodal Decomposition

Domain Structures and Viscoelastic Properties of Immiscible Polymer Blends Under Shear Flow

Effects of Flow on the Structure and Phase Behavior of Polymer Blends

Influence of Interface Modification on Coalescence in Polymer Blends

OrientationBehavior of Thermoplastic Elastomers Studied by 2H-NMR Spectroscopy

Monte Carlo Simulations of End-Grafted Polymer Chains Under Shear Flow

Effect of Shear on Self-Assembling Block Copolymers and Phase-Separating Polymer Blends

Shear-Induced Changes in the Order-Disorder Transition Temperature and the Morphology of a Triblock Copolymer

Phase-Separation Kinetics of a Polymer Blend Solution Studied by a Two-Step Shear Quench

Shear-Induced Structure and Dynamics of Tube-Shaped Micelles

The Texture in Shear Flow of Nematic Solutions of a Rodlike Polymer

Light Scattering from Lyotropic Textured Liquid-Crystalline Polymers Under Shear Flow

Comparison of Molecular Orientation and Rheology in Model Lyotropic Liquid-CrystallinePolymers

Shear-Induced Orientation of Liquid-Crystalline Hydroxypropyl cellulose in D2O as Measured by Neutron Scattering

Shear-Induced Alignment of Liquid-Crystalline Suspensions of Cellulose Microfibrils"

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