Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics

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Author(s): Pierre-giles De Gennes
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 1979

Language: English
Pages: 326

Cover Page......Page 1
Title: Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics......Page 3
ISBN 080141203X......Page 4
I: A Single Chain......Page 5
III: Polymer Solutions in Good Solvents......Page 6
V: Polymer Gels......Page 7
VII: Many-Chain Systems: The Respiration Modes......Page 8
IX: Self-Consistent Fields and Random Phase Approximation......Page 9
XI: An Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas......Page 10
Indexes......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Part A: STATIC CONFORMATIONS......Page 27
I: A Single Chain......Page 29
II: Polymer Melts......Page 54
III: Polymer Solutions in Good Solvents......Page 69
IV: Incompatibility and Segregation......Page 98
V: Polymer Gels......Page 128
Part B: DYNAMICS......Page 163
VI: Dynamics of a Single Chain......Page 165
VII: Many-Chain Systems: The Respiration Modes......Page 205
VIII: Entanglement Effects......Page 219
Part C: CALCULATION METHODS......Page 243
IX: Self-Consistent Fields and Random Phase Approximation......Page 245
X: Relationships between Polymer Statistics and Critical Phenomena......Page 265
XI: An Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas......Page 290
Author lndex......Page 317
Subject lndex......Page 321