Polymer Networks Principles of their Formation, Structure and Properties [Hardcover]

Written by an international team of authors with a strong emphasis on the underlying chemistry, this book forms a timely, concise, and accessible evaluation of the fundamentals of polymer network formation, structure, and properties, and how these three aspects are interrelated.

Introduction. Non-linear polymerization, gelation and network formation, structure and properties. Network formation involving polyfunctional polymer chains. Transitions during network formation. Reactive processing of polymer networks: Structure-property relationships in copolymer networks formed by reaction injection moulding. Interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) materials. Molecular aspects of rubberlike elasticity. Viscoelastic behaviour of network materials. Formation, structure and properties of physical networks. Appendix. Index.