Preface ....................................................... vii
About the Editor ............................................... ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
1 Functional Polymer Blends: Synthesis and Microstructures ..... 1
Vikas Mittal
2 Miscibility Enhancement of Polymer Blends through Multiple
Hydrogen Bonding Interactions ............................... 27
Shiao-Wei Kuo
3 Component Dynamics in Miscible Polymer Blends ............... 53
Hiroshi Watanabe and Osamu Urakawa
4 Shape Memory Polymer Blends ................................ 127
Young-Wook Chang
5 Synthesis and Properties of Ethylene Methacrylate (EMA)
Copolymer Toughened Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) Blends .. 147
Siddaramaiah, P. Poomalai, and Johnsy George
6 Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies of Binary Blend
Miscibility ................................................ 177
Hua Yang
7 Conformation and Topology of Cyclic-Linear Polymer Blends .. 193
Gopinath Subramanian and Sachin Shanbhag
8 Strain Hardening in Polymer Blends with Fibril Morphology .. 233
Joung Sook Hong, Hyung Tag Lim, Kyung Hyun Ahn, and Seung
Jong Lee
9 Modification of Polymer Blends by E-Beam and
γ-Irradiation .............................................. 261
Rodolphe Sonnier, Aurélie Taguet, and Sophie Rouif
10 Directed Assembly of Polymer Blends Using Nanopatterned
Chemical Surfaces .......................................... 305
Ming Wei and Joey Mead
Index ......................................................... 327
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