Heterophase Network Polymers

This volume explains the theory and experimental investigations in the preparation of heterophase polymer network materials through cure reaction-induced microphase separation (CRIMPS). It describes the synthesis of a new family of block- and graft-copolymers with controlled solubility in epoxies and characterizes CRIMPS processes using novel applications of known methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spin resonance and photochemistry. The text develops a new method for characterizing the molecular mass distribution (MMD) of linear and network polymers using thermomechanical analysis data, as well as new methods for determining internal stresses and flaw formation during thermoset curing.
The CRIMPS theory will be helpful for researchers and engineers designing and improving toughened plastics and other smart heterophase network materials for different applications. The new method for MMD characterization of polymers in bulk will be very useful to quickly analyze a polymer's MMD and to design new polymers. This book will provide a useful reference for graduates, researchers and working professionals in polymer chemistry and physics and materials science.

BORIS A. ROZENBERG is a Head of the Department of Polymers and Composite Materials at the . Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Chernogolovka's branch of Moscow State University, Russia. His research interests are in the kinetics and mechanism of formation and modification of polymers and composites, phase transformations in reacting polymer systems, and the structure and properties of polymers and composites. GRIGORI M. SIGALOV is affiliated to the Institute of Polymer Engineering,. The University of Akron, Akron OH, USA. His research interests include the theory of microphase separation in curing multicomponent polymer systems, digital image analysis methods for characterization of the smicnirc of multiphase polymer blends, processing conditions-morphology and material morphology-properties correlations, and non-linear dynamics in polymer systems

Synthesis of Well-Defined Bifunctional Oligobutadines as Initiated by Dilithium Alkanes Soluble in Hydrocarbons. Theory of Microphase Separation in Curing Systems. Kinetics and Mechanism of Cure Reactions and Reaction-Induced Microphase Separation. Structure Properties Relationship. New Approaches to Polymer Networks Characterization.