Table of Contents:
  • The structure and properties of glassy polymers : an overview / Anita J. Hill and Martin R. Tant
  • The use of configurational entropy to derive the kinetic properties of polymer glasses / Edmund A. Di Marzio
  • Entropy, landscapes, and fragility in liquids and polymers, and the [delta]Cp [excess heat capacity] problem / C.A. Angell
  • Dynamic properties of polymer melts above the glass transition : Monte Carlo simulation results / Jörg Baschnagel
  • The thermal glass transition beyond the time trap / K.-P. Bohn and J.K. Krüger
  • Dynamic Monte Carlo simulation and dielectric measurements of the effect of pore size on glass transition temperature and the state of the glass / N. Haralampus, J.P. Northrop, C. Scordalakes, E. Ashmore, W. Martin, D. Kranbuehl, and P.H. Verdier
  • Temperature-modulated calorimetry of the frequency dependence of the glass transition of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and polystyrene / Bernhard Wunderlich and Iwao Okazaki
  • Polymer glasses : thermodynamic and relaxational aspects / Robert Simha
  • Structural relaxation and fragility of glass-forming miscible blends composed of atactic polystyrene and poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) / Christopher G. Robertson and Garth L. Wilkes
  • Dielectric spectroscopy of bisphenol-A polycarbonate and some of its blends / G.J. Pratt and M.J.A. Smith
  • Physical aging near the beta transition of a poly(amide-imide) / George J. Dallas, Thomas C. Ward, James Rancourt, and Mia Siochi
  • Low-temperature relaxation of polymers probed by photochemical hole burning / Shinjiro Machida, Satomi Tanaka, Kazuyuki Horie, and Binyao Li
  • Fitting differential scanning calorimetry heating curves for polyetherimide using a model of structural recovery / Sindee L. Simon
  • The physics of glassy polycarbonate : superposability and volume recovery / Paul A. O'Connell, Carl R. Schultheisz, and Gregory B. McKenna
  • Polymer-polymer miscibility investigated by temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry / G.O.R. Alberda van Ekenstein, G. ten Brinke, and T.S. Ellis
  • Physical aging in PMMA investigated using positron annihilation, dielectric relaxation, and dynamic mechanical thermal analysis / William J. Davis and Richard A. Pethrick
  • Craze initiation and failure in glassy poly(ethylene terephthalate) : the effects of physical aging with and without exposure to chemical environments / Martin R. Tant, E.J. Moskala, M.K. Jank, T.J. Pecorini, and Anita J. Hill
  • Transitions, properties, and molecular mobility during cure of thermosetting resins / Jakob Lange, Roman Ekelöf, Nigel A. St. John, and Graeme A. George
  • A dynamic probe of tribological processes at metal-polymer interfaces : transient current generation / J.T. Dickinson, L. Scudiero, and S.C. Langford
  • The effect of orientation by solid state processes on the amorphous regions in poly(vinyl alcohol) and high density poly(ethylene) / Anita J. Hill, T.J. Bastow, and R.M. Hodge
  • Free volume and transport properties of barrier and membrane polymers / B.D. Freeman and Anita J. Hill
  • The segmental motion and gas permeability of glassy polymer poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) membranes / T. Nakagawa, T. Watanabe, and K. Nagai
  • Vacancy spectroscopy of polymers using positronium / Yasuo Ito
  • Subnanometer hole properties of cellulose studied by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy / H. Cao, J.-P. Yuan, Y.C. Jean, A. Pekarovicova, and R.A. Venditti
  • Ionic conductivity in glassy PVOH-lithium salt systems / M. Forsyth, H.A. Every, F. Zhou, and D.R. MacFarlane
  • Oxygen transport through electronically conductive polyanilines / Yong Soo Kang, Hyuck Jai Lee, Jina Namgoong, Heung Cho Ko, Hoosung Lee, Bumsuk Jung, and Un Young Kim
  • Xenon-129 NMR as a probe of polymer sorption sites : a new view of structure and transport / J.M. Koons, W.-Y. Wen, P.T. Inglefield, and A.A. Jones
  • Dissolution mechanism of glassy polymers : a molecular analysis / B. Narasimhan and N.A. Peppas
  • Gas barrier and thermal properties of (alkylsulfonyl)methyl-substituted poly(oxyalkylene)s / Jong-Chan Lee, Morton H. Litt, and Charles E. Rogers.