The Fractal Physics Of Polymer Synthesis

Using fractal analysis, irreversible aggregation models, synergetics, and percolation theory, this book describes the main reactions of high-molecular substances. It is the first to give the structural and physical grounds of polymers synthesis and curing based on fractal analysis. It provides a single equation for describing the relationship between the reaction rate constants and the equilibrium constants with the nature of the medium.

Using fractal analysis, irreversible aggregation models, synergetics, and percolation theory, this book describes the main reactions of high-molecular substances. It is the first to give the structural and physical grounds of polymers synthesis and curing based on fractal analysis. It provides a single equation for describing the relationship between the reaction rate constants and the equilibrium constants with the nature of the medium.

This book provides an important structural analysis of polymer solutions and melts, using fractal analysis. The book covers the theoretical fundamentals of macromolecules fractal analysis. It then goes on to discuss the fractal physics of polymer solutions and the fractal physics of melts. The intended audience of the book includes specialists in chemistry and physics of polymer synthesis and those in the field of polymers and polymer composites processing.

This book provides an important structural analysis of polymer solutions and melts, using fractal analysis. The book covers the theoretical fundamentals of macromolecules fractal analysis. It then goes on to discuss the fractal physics of polymer solutions and the fractal physics of melts. The intended audience of the book includes specialists in chemistry and physics of polymer synthesis and those in the field of polymers and polymer composites processing.

This new book explores the consideration of relationships that connect the structural and basic mechanical properties of polymeric mediums within the frameworks of fractal analysis with cluster model representations attraction. Incidentally, the choice of any structural model of medium or their combinations is defined by expediency and further usage convenience only. This book presents leading-edge research in this rapidly changing and evolving field. The book presents descriptions of the main reactions of high-molecular substances within the frameworks of fractal analysis and irreversible aggregation models. Synergetics and percolation theory were also used. In spite of the enormous number of papers dealing with the influence of the medium on the rate of chemical reactions (including synthesis of polymers), no strict quantitative theory capable of "universal" application has been put forward up until now. It is now possible to describe the relationship between the reaction rate constants and the equilibrium constants with the nature of the medium in which the reactions take place by means of a single equation. This important book for the first time gives structural and physical grounds of polymers synthesis and curing, and the fractal analysis is used for this purpose. This new book: - Highlights some important areas of current interest in polymer products and chemical processes - Focuses on topics with more advanced methods - Emphasizes precise mathematical development and actual experimental details - Analyzes theories to formulate and prove the physicochemical principles - Provides an up-to-date and thorough exposition of the present state of the art of complex polymeric materials

Fractal Analysis of Polymers - From Synthesis to Composites

The contents included in this book are: Preface; Spin Probes for the Study of Intact and Cancer Cell Membranes; Sulphur as a Stabiliser of Polyvinylchloride; Universality of Free Energies Linearity Principle in Solution Chemistry; The KBr Action on the rate of H2O2 Decomposition in Alkaline Medium; Fireproof Materials containing Nanostructures: Principles of Formation; Fireproof Intumescent Coating Foamcoke Structure Regulation by Carbon Metal-containing Nanostructures; Upholstery Fire Barriers based on Natural Fibres; Structural Criterion on Change of a Kinetic Curves Type in the Process of a Thermooxidative Degradation; and Alternative View at the Universe. It also includes: Effect of the Cationic Polyelectrolyte Molecular Mass on the Flocculation Kinetics and the Efficiency of Polymer Precipitation from Latexes; Co-polymers with Cyclic Fragments in Dimethylsiloxane Backbone(O; Fractal Physics of the Polycondensation Processes; The Problem of Structural-Physical Organisation of Polymeric Non-Crystalline Phase; and Physical and Semi-Empirical Methods of Solvent Influence on Solute Behaviour.

Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-like structure. Starch, cellulose, and rubber all possess polymeric properties. Today, the polymer industry has grown to be larger than the aluminium, copper and steel industries combined. Polymers already have a range of applications that far exceeds that of any other class of material available to man. Current applications extend from adhesives, coatings, foams, and packaging materials to textile and industrial fibres, elastomers, and structural plastics. Polymers are also used for most composites, electronic devices, biomedical devices, optical devices, and precursors for many newly developed high-tech ceramics. This new volume presents leading-edge research in this rapidly-changing and evolving field.