Ordering in Macromolecular Systems : Proceedings of the OUMS’93 Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, 3–6 June 1993

This volume summarizes the papers presented at the First Osaka University Macromolecular Symposium OUMS'93 on "Ordering in Macromolecular Systems", which was held at Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan, on June 3 through June 6, 1993. The symposium covered the three topics, (1) Crystallization and Phase Transitions, (2) Polymer Liquid Crystals and (3) Block Copolymers, Polymer Blends and Surfaces, and invited leading scientists in these fields. At present any of these topics is a hot issue in itself and frequently taken up separately in many occasions. It is noted however that all these topics are correlated with each other with the keyword "Ordering" and their combination provides a unique feature of the present symposium in reflecting the interactions among investigators working in these important fields with the common ground expressed by the keyword "Ordering". Nineteen invited lectures and 40 posters of both experiment and theory were presented at the symposium, and the eighteen lectures and ten poster presentations contribute to this volume. In the first topic crystal structures and their transitions were discussed from kinetic as well as static points of view; attention was paid to give a molecular-level interpretation of the structure, phase transition and physical properties, using theories and simulations. The second topic was mainly concerned with static structures and thermodynamic properties of polymer liquid crystals including phase behaviours. Front Matter....Pages I-IX A Unifying Scheme for Polymer Crystallization Based on Recent Experiments with Wider Implications for Phase Transformations....Pages 1-15 Order-Disorder Transitions in Crystalline Polymers with Characteristic Mechanical and Electric Properties....Pages 17-34 Computer Simulation of Macromolecular Crystals and Their Defects....Pages 35-49 AFM Observation of Surface Morphology for Oriented PET Films....Pages 51-58 Characterization of Polymer Interface by Micro Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 59-67 Supramolecular Assemblies of Cyclodextrins with Polymers and Preparation of Polyrotaxanes....Pages 69-78 Case II Diffusion in Polystyrene Fiber: In-situ Measurement of a Moving Sharp Front....Pages 79-88 “Liquid Crystallization” Mechanism of Liquid Crystalline Polymers....Pages 89-97 Thermotropic Liquid Crystals in Polypeptides....Pages 99-113 Study on the Orientational Order of the Main Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers....Pages 115-124 Statistical Theory of Liquid Crystalline Orderings in Hard Rod Fluids....Pages 125-138 Phase Diagram and Molecular Ordering of Dimer Liquid Crystals Dissolved in a Simple Nematic Solvent....Pages 139-153 Phase Equilibria in Liquid Crystalline Polymer Solutions: Theory and Experiment....Pages 155-169 Light Scattering Studies of a Nematic to Smectic — A Phase Transition in Rigid Rod Polymer Solutions....Pages 171-179 Collective and Molecular Dynamics in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: From Low Molar to Polymeric and Elastomeric Compounds....Pages 181-189 The Rheology of PBLG Liquid Crystalline Polymers at High Concentrations....Pages 191-201 Microdomain Structures of Triblock Copolymers of the ABC Type....Pages 203-216 Evolution of Ordering in Thin Films of Symmetric Diblock Copolymers....Pages 217-223 Rheology of Polymeric Materials with Mesoscopic Domain Structure....Pages 225-240 Rheology, Dielectric, Relaxation, and Adhesion of Thermodynamically Confined Diblock Copolymer Chains....Pages 241-252 Crystallization Kinetics and Microdomain Structures for Blends of Amorphous-Crystalline Block Copolymers with Amorphous Homopolymers....Pages 253-261 Reversible Heteropolymer Gelation -Phase Diagrams of Mixed Networks-....Pages 263-271 SANS Studies of Early Stage Spinodal Decomposition....Pages 273-290 Dynamic Interplay Between Wetting and Phase Separation in Geometrically Confined Polymer Mixtures....Pages 291-300 Wetting of Grafted Polymer Surfaces by Compatible Chains....Pages 301-311 Surface Segregation and Wetting from Polymer Mixtures....Pages 313-322 Interfacial Properties of Mixed Polymer Films Spread at the Air/Water Interface....Pages 323-332 Polymer Monolayer Dynamics....Pages 333-348 Back Matter....Pages 349-353 The book combines 18 invited lectures and 10 posters of the OUMS '93 symposium on "Ordering in Macromolecular Systems". It covers both experimental and theoretical investigation of the three topics (1) Cristallization and Phase Transition (2) Polymer Liquid Crystals and (3) Block Copolymers, Polymer Blends and Surfaces. The combination of these three topics which are correlated by "ordering" provides a unique feature of the present symposium in reflecting the interactions among investigators working in these important fields.
Thus the book will be a useful tool for the polymer specialist working in these related fields and will also serve as a reference book for those who wish to get familiar with these topics.