This volume in the book series New Concepts in Polymer Science, dealswith the dynamical behaviour of low-molecular additives in solidpolymer matrixes. The molecular mobility of additives determines therate of many physical and chemical processes such as plastification,diffusion, dyeing, etc. Moreover, the mobility of molecules is one ofthe main parameters for determining polymer reactivity.
The book covers types and models of molecular motion in condensedmedia; dependence of motional frequency on particle structure andsize, temperature, volume and stress; and polymer properties andpolymeric structures. Extensive analyses of common regularities ofrotational and translational dynamics of molecules introduced intopolymers are given. Besides the theories used for molecular dynamicdescription, this book also includes experimental techniques formolecular mobility evaluation. The most important feature of thisbook is the availability of numerous, detailed, data on rotationaldynamics of additives, which enables the evaluation of dynamicparameters of practically any particle in a polymer, the use ofmodels and theories of molecular mobility, and prediction of rates ofchemical reaction processes with small particles.
This book will be of value and interest to specialists in variousfields of polymer physical chemistry and materials science.
1997; xii+276 pages ISBN 90-6764-259-2 Price (all prices are subject to change without notice): EUR 194/US$ 277
