CONTRIBUTORS ................................................... ix
PREFACE ...................................................... xiii
Robert Simha: A Life with Polymers .............................. 1
Ivan G. Otterness and Alexander M. Jamieson
PART I RHEOLOGY ............................................... 15
1 Newtonian Viscosity of Dilute, Semidilute, and
Concentrated
Polymer Solutions ........................................... 17
Alexander M. Jamieson and Robert Simha
2 Polymer and Surfactant Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flows .... 89
Jacques L. Zakin and Wu Ge
3 Nanorheology of Polymer Nanoalloys and Nanocomposites ...... 129
Ken Nakajima and Toshio Nishi
4 Volume Relaxation and the Lattice-Hole Model ............... 161
Richard E. Robertson and Robert Simha
5 Dynamics of Materials at the Nanoscale: Small-Molecule
Liquids and Polymer Films .................................. 191
Gregory B. McKenna
PART II THERMODYNAMICS ....................................... 225
6 Equations of State and Free-Volume Content ................. 227
Pierre Moulinié and Leszek A. Utracki
7 Spatial Configuration and Thermodynamic Characteristics
of Main-Chain Liquid Crystals .............................. 283
Akihiro Abe and Hidemine Furuya
8 Bulk and Surface Properties of Random Copolymers in View
of the Simha-Somcynsky Equation of State ................... 323
Hans-Werner Kammer and Jörg Kressler
9 Physical Aging ............................................. 357
John (Iain) M.G. Cowie and Valeria Arrighi
PART III POSITION ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY ......... 391
10 Morphology of Free-Volume Holes in Amorphous Polymers by
Means of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy ....... 393
Giovanni Consolati and Fiorenza Quasso
11 Local Free-Volume Distribution from PALS and Dynamics of
Polymers ................................................... 421
Günter Dlubek
12 Positron Annihilation Lifetime Studies of Free Volume
in Heterogeneous Polymer Systems ........................... 473
Alexander M. Jamieson, Brian G. Olson, and Sergei
Nazarenko
PART IV PHYSICS OF THE POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES .............. 523
13 Structure-Property Relationships of Nanocomposites ......... 525
Cyril Sender, Jean Fabien Capsal, Antoine Lonjon, Alain
Bernès, Philippe Demont, Éric Dantras, Valérie
Samouillan, Jany Dandurand, Colette Lacabanne, and Lydia
Laffont
14 Free Volume in Molten and Glassy Polymers and
Nanocomposites ............................................. 553
Leszek A. Utracki
15 Metal Particles Confined in Polymeric Matrices ............. 605
Luigi Nicolais and Gianfranco Carotenuto
16 Rheology of Polymers with Nanofillers ...................... 639
Leszek A. Utracki, Maryam M. Sepehr, and Pierre
J. Carreau
Appendix A: Abbreviations and Notations ....................... 709
Appendix B: Robert Simha Publications ......................... 737
SUBJECT INDEX ................................................. 755
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