Preface ............................................................ iii List of Contributors ............................................... vii 1. Polyolefins ...................................................... 1 Walter Kaminsky 2. Polystyrenes and Other Aromatic Poly(vinyl compound)s ........... 73 Oskar Nuyken 3. Poly(vinyl ether)s, Poly(vinyl ester)s, and Poly(vinyl halogenide)s ........................................ 151 Oskar Nuyken, Harald Braun and James Crivello 4. Polymers of Acrylic Acid, Methacrylic Acid, Maleic Acid and their Derivatives .............................................. 241 Oskar Nuyken 5. Polymeric Dienes ............................................... 333 Walter Kaminsky and B.Hinrichs 6. Metathesis Polymerization of Cycloolefins ...................... 381 Ulrich Frenzel, Bettina K.M. Muller and Oskar Nuyken 7. Aromatic Polyethers ............................................ 427 Hans R. Kricheldorf 8. Polyurethanes .................................................. 503 Zoran S. Petrovic 9. Polyimides ..................................................... 541 Javier de Abajo and Jose G. de la Campa 10. Poly(vinyl aldehyde)s, Poly(vinyl ketone)s, and Phosphorus-Containing Vinyl Polymers ........................... 603 Oskar Nuyken 11. Metal-Containing Macromolecules ................................ 659 Dieter Wohrle 12. Conducting Polymers ............................................ 737 Herbert Naarmann 13. Photoconductive Polymers ....................................... 779 P.Strohriegl and J.V.Grazulevicius 14. Polymers for Organic Light Emitting Devices/Diodes (OLEDs) ..... 811 O.Nuyken, E.Backer, M.Rojahn, V.Wiederhirn, R.Weberskirch and K.Meerholz 15. Crosslinking and Polymer Networks .............................. 841 Manfred L. Hallensleben 16. Biodegradable Polymers for Biomedical Applications ............. 881 Samuel J. Huang 17. Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization ....................... 895 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and James Spanswick Index .............................................................. 943