Phase Transitions and Structure of Polymer Systems in External Fields

Product Description


Generalized and extensive experimental and theoretical data regarding the phase transitions of polymer systems in mechanical and magnetic fields provide the possibility to predict the results of external field effects on the structure and mutual solubility of components. The data on dynamic structuring in deformed polymer blends and solutions allow for the use of regularities by the processing of polymer systems. The methods offered in this book allow for the connection of shift of phase diagrams in the mechanical field with changes in macromolecule sizes. The tutorials described here will help the reader to correctly build the phase diagrams of polymer systems using a variety of methods.


About the Author


Professor Sergey A. Vshivkov, DrSci, has been with Ural State University (now Ural Federal University), Russia, since 1965, and headed the universitys Chair of Macromolecular Compounds from 2001 to 2017. He is a Merited Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Head of the Ural School of the Physical Chemistry of Polymers. His scientific interests are connected with the thermodynamics and structure of polymer systems, and his research currently focuses on phase transitions, rheology and the structure of liquid crystalline polymer systems perturbed by mechanical and magnetic fields. He has published 160 papers in various journals, and is the author of 16 monographs and textbooks.