Polymer Physics

Index

A
Adjacent chain-folding model, 201
arelaxation, 106
Anelastic, 100
Arm retraction (AR), 90
Arrhenius type, 98
Athermal solvent, 49
Avrami index, 216
Avrami phenomenological equation, 215
Axialites, 204

B
Bead-spring chain, 80
Bingham fluid, 131
Binodal line, 168
Bjerrum screening length, 60
Blob model, 53
Block copolymers, 28
Boltzmann superposition principle, 101
Branched polymers, 27
Brittle-ductile transition, 123
Brittle fracture, 121
Burger’s model, 102

C
Capillary-jet phenomenon, 143
CED.SeeCohesive energy density (CED)
Central-limit theorem, 33
Chain-end effects, 23
Chain-folding principle, 202
Chain-like structures, 4
Characteristic ratio, 21
Characteristic time, 77
Charged polymer, 59
Classical nucleation theory, 177

Cohesive energy density (CED), 48

Coil-helix transition, 237

Coil-stretch transition, 137

Cold-drawing, 121

Collapse transition, 55

Comb-like polymers, 27

Common tangent rule, 168

Complex fluids, 3

Complex viscosity, 109

Concentrated solutions, 45

Condis crystal, 191

Conformational energy parameter, 192

Connective constant, 50

Conside`re construction, 120

Constitutive equation, 132

Contour length fluctuations (CLF), 89

Contour length relaxation, 133

Convective constraint release (CCR), 133

Correlation hole, 51

Couette flow, 128

Cox-Merx rule, 109

Crazing, 121

Creep, 100

Creep compliance, 88, 100–101

Critical exponent, 50

Critical overlap concentration, 45

Critical point, 168

Crystallinity, 214

Crystallization, 187

Crystallization fractionation, 214

Crystal polymorphism, 200

D

Deborah number, 137

Debye function, 174

Debye-Hu ̈ckel screening length, 61

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