The Mesoscopic Theory of Polymer Dynamics

• Main Author: Pokrovskii, Vladimir N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 95
• Subjects: Physics.; Polymers.; Mechanics.; Fluids.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Polymer Sciences.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.

The theory presented in this book explains in a consistent manner all dynamic effects (diffusion, neutron scattering, viscoelasticity, optical birefringence) observed in very concentrated solutions and melts of linear polymers from a macromolecular point of view. This monograph reconciles different...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Macromolecular Systems in Equilibrium
• Dynamics of a Macromolecule in a Viscous Liquid
• Dynamics of a Macromolecule in an Entangled System
• Conformational Relaxation
• The Localisation Effect
• Linear Viscoelasticity
• Equations of Relaxation
• Relaxation Processes in the Phenomenological Theory
• Non-Linear Effects of Viscoelasticity
• Optical Anisotropy.