Ordering in Macromolecular Systems

A Unifying Scheme for Polymer Crystallization Based on Recent Experiments with Wider Implications for Phase Transformations.- Order-Disorder Transitions in Crystalline Polymers with Characteristic Mechanical and Electric Properties.- Computer Simulation of Macromolecular Crystals and Their Defects.- AFM Observation of Surface Morphology for Oriented PET Films.- Characterization of Polymer Interface by Micro Raman Spectroscopy.- Supramolecular Assemblies of Cyclodextrins with Polymers and Preparation of Polyrotaxanes.- Case II Diffusion in Polystyrene Fiber: In-situ Measurement of a Moving Sharp Front.- "Liquid Crystallization" Mechanism of Liquid Crystalline Polymers.- Thermotropic Liquid Crystals in Polypeptides.- Study on the Orientational Order of the Main Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers.- Statistical Theory of Liquid Crystalline Orderings in Hard Rod Fluids - Nematic, Cholesteric, Smectic and Columnar Phases.- Phase Diagram and Molecular Ordering of Dimer Liquid Crystals Dissolved in a Simple Nematic Solvent.- Phase Equilibria in Liquid Crystalline Polymer Solutions: Theory and Experiment.- Light Scattering Studies of a Nematic to Smectic-A Phase Transition in Rigid Rod Polymer Solutions.- Collective and Molecular Dynamics in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: From Low Molar to Polymeric and Elastomeric Compounds.- The Rheology of PBLG Liquid Crystalline Polymers at High Concentrations.- Microdomain Structures of Triblock Copolymers of the ABC Type.- Evolution of Ordering in Thin Films of Symmetric Diblock Copolymers.- Rheology of Polymeric Materials with Mesoscopic Domain Structure.- Rheology, Dielectric Relaxation, and Adhesion of Thermodynamically Confined Diblock Copolymer Chains.- Crystallization Kinetics and Microdomain Structures for Blends of Amorphous-Crystalline Block Copolymers with Amorphous Homopolymers.- Reversible Heteropolymer Gelation - Phase Diagrams of Mixed Networks.- SANS Studies of Early Stage Spinodal Decomposition.- Dynamic Interplay between Wetting and Phase Separation in Geometrically Confined Polymer Mixtures.- Wetting of Grafted Polymer Surfaces by Compatible Chains.- Surface Segregation and Wetting from Polymer Mixtures.- Interfacial Properties of Mixed Polymer Films Spread at the Air / Water Interface.- Polymer Monolayer Dynamics.- Author Index.