NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers: Innovative Strategies for Complex Macromolecules(1077 ACS Symposium Series)

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a premiere technique for the studies of polymers. It is widely used for polymer identification, quality control, and reaction monitoring to structure determination, polymer morphology, compatibility, chain conformation, dynamics, diffusion, and imaging. NMR users can be found in academia, industry, government agencies, and independent laboratories worldwide. Because articles on polymer NMR tend to be published in a large number of different journals, it is useful to have a single book that includes review and papers on the latest advances by acknowledged leaders and active researchers in this field. This book satisfies this need.This book originates from a three-day symposium at the Pacifichem Conference in December 2010, where active practitioners of NMR gathered to provide a lively and highly successful symposium that included 43 talks and 24 posters, representing the state-of-the-art research of polymer NMR in solids, liquids, and imaging. Most of the papers in this book are taken from the lectures given at the Pacifichem meeting. A total of 31 articles are included in this book, covering fundamental and applied research, new methodology development, polymer structure determination, polymer dynamics and diffusion, nanostructures and nanocomposites, supramolecular assemblies, blends, miscibility, and heterogeneity, polymers under confinements and on surfaces, and multidimensional NMR. Thus, this book provides a good representation of what is happening at the forefront of research in polymer NMR and also furnishes timely and authoritative reviews and original papers on the theory and the practice of NMR spectroscopy of polymers.

Table of Contents:
Preface H. W. Spiess - An Appreciation Overviews 1. Innovative NMR Strategies for Complex Macromolecules H. N. Cheng, Tetsuo Asakura, and Alan D. English 2. Overview of NMR of Bulk Polymers Hans Wolfgang Spiess 3. Tutorial on Solution NMR of Polymers Peter L. Rinaldi Solid State Polymer Structure 4. New Insights into Amorphous Macromolecules and Their Mixtures from Advanced Magnetic Resonance Experiments Jeffery L. White, Marcin Wachowicz, Lance Gill, Joshua Damron, and Justyna Wolak-Dinsmore 5. Solid-State NMR Investigations of Semi-Crystalline PVIBE/?-PL and PK/PA Blends: Crystallite Size, Type, and Morphology Related to Physical Properties Atsushi Asano 6. Investigation of Filler-Matrix Interactions and Confinement Effect in Polymer Nanocomposites K. P. Pramoda, K. Y. Mya, T. T. Lin, J. Wang, and C. B. He 7. 1H MAS NMR Spectroscopy of Polyethylene Acrylic Acid Copolymers and Ionomers Todd M. Alam, Janelle E. Jenkins, Michelle E. Seitz, C. Francisco Buitrago, Karen I. Winey, Kathleen L. Opper, Travis W. Baughman, and Kenneth B. Wagener 8. A Solid-State NMR Study of Boric Acid Doped in Poly(vinyl alcohol) Kazuhiko Yamada Polymer Motion and Diffusion 9. NMR Characterization of Canopy Dynamics in Nanoscale Ionic Materials Michael L. Jespersen, Peter A. Mirau, Ernst von Meerwall, Richard A. Vaia, Robert Rodriguez, Nikhil J. Fernandes, and Emmanuel P. Giannelis 10. Dynamics of Disordered Structure of ?-Conjugated Polymers Investigated by Solid-State NMR N. Asakawa, Y. Inoue, T. Yamamoto, R. Shimizu, M. Tansho, and K. Yazawa 11. Molecular Mobility and Phase Composition in Polyolefins: From Fundamental to Applied Research V. M. Litvinov 12. Molecular Dynamics and Structure of the Crystalline Region of Isotactic-Polyolefins Characterized by Solid-State NMR Toshikazu Miyoshi 13. Chain Mobility in Crosslinked EPDM Rubbers. Comparison of 1H NMR T2 Relaxometry and Double-Quantum 1H NMR Pieter C. M. M. Magusin, Ramona A. Orza, Victor M. Litvinov, Martin van Duin, and Kay Saalwächter 14. Diffusion NMR of Polymers in Bicelles Peter M. Macdonald 15. Understanding Anisotropy, Transport, and Ion Associations Inside Ionic Polymers Jianbo Hou, Jing Li, Kyle G. Wilmsmeyer, Zhiyang Zhang, and Louis A. Madsen 16. 13C-NMR Observed Conformations and Motions of Neat Liquid and Crystalline n-Hexatriacontane and as a Guest in the Narrow Channels of Its Inclusion Compound Formed with ?-Cyclodextrin M. A. Hunt, S. Villar-Rodil, M. A. Gomez-Fatou, I. D. Shin, F. C. Schilling, and A. E. Tonelli Biopolymers and Biochemistry 17. NMR Characterization and Product Design of Novel Silk-Based Biomaterials Aya Nagano, Yu Suzuki, Yasumoto Nakazawa, J. T. Gerig, and Tetsuo Asakura 18. The Interaction of A?(1-40) Peptide with Lipid Bilayers and Ganglioside As Studied by Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Yasumoto Nakazawa, Yu Suzuki, Hazime Saitô, and Tetsuo Asakura 19. Characterization of Microbial Poly(?-L-lysine) and Its Derivatives by Solid-State NMR Shiro Maeda, Chizuru Sasaki, and Ko-Ki Kunimoto 20. NMR, NIR, and Infrared Spectroscopy of Carbohydrate?Protein Interactions and Glycoproteins I. C. Baianu and V. Prisecaru NMR in Solution and in the Melt 21. Advanced Solution 2D-NMR of Fluoropolymers Peter L. Rinaldi, Silapong Baiagern, Peter Fox, Jon L. Howell, Linlin Li, Xiaohong Li, Donald F. Lyons, Elizabeth F. McCord, Sangrama K. Sahoo, Eric B. Twum, and Faith J. Wyzgoski 22. Statistical Models and NMR Analysis of Polymer Microstructure H. N. Cheng and Massoud J. Miri 23. Composition and Phase Morphology of Hard/Soft Acrylic Latex Polymers: NMR and AFM Study Kebede Beshah and Robert F. Antrim 24. Application of Melt-State NMR Spectroscopy for Polyolefin Characterization in Industry Gerhard Hubner, Isa Fonseca, and Matthew Parkinson 25. NMR Rescaling Revisited M. E. Ries, A. Bansal, and M. G. Brereton 26. An NMR Investigation of a Polymer Melt under Shear Ute Böhme and Ulrich Scheler NMR Imaging 27. NMR Imaging and Its Application in the Study of Pharmaceutical Tablets H. Thérien-Aubin, Y. J. Wang, and X. X. Zhu 28. Effect of Molecular Architecture on the Performance of 19F NMR Imaging Agents Hui Peng, Kristofer Thurecht, Steven Hsu, Idriss Blakey, Oliver Squires, Nyoman Kurniawan, Stephen Rose, and Andrew K Whittaker Special NMR Techniques 29. Latex State and Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Elastomers Seiichi Kawahara 30. Proton MAS NMR Analysis of Phenyl Silane Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles Khalid A. M. Thakur, Mark McCormick, Wendy L. Thompson, Chuntao Cao, and William J. Schultz 31. Dependence of the Amount of Xe Sorption on the 129Xe NMR Chemical Shift in Glassy Polymers H. Yoshimizu Epilogue: An Addiction to NMR Editor's Biographies Indexes Author Index Subject Index

About the Author :
H. N. Cheng is currently a research chemist at Southern Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in New Orleans, where he works on projects involving improved utilization of commodity agricultural materials, green chemistry, and polymer reactions. Over the years, his research interests have included NMR spectroscopy, polymer characterization, biocatalysis and enzymatic reactions, functional foods, and pulp & paper technology. He is an ACS and a POLY Fellow and has authored or co-authored 148 papers, 24 patent publications, co-edited 7 books, and organized or co-organized 20 symposia at national meetings since 1997. Tetsuo Asakura has been Associate Professor and Professor in the Department of Biotechnology of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology since 1981. He was Assistant Professor of Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo in 1980-81 and Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Florida State University in 1990-91. He has produced approximately 300 publications. His research specialties include structural analysis of polymers using NMR, NMR chemical shift calculation, characterization of silk and transgenic silk, and applications of silk to biomaterials. He received Awards of Polymer Society in Japan and Fiber Society in Japan Alan D. English is a DuPont Fellow in DuPont Central Research and Development at the Experimental Station in Wilmington, DE. His interests include solid state NMR spectroscopy of polymers and development of polymer structure/property/processing relationships. He is both an APS Fellow and an ACS Fellow and has been the recipient of a number of awards including the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science and the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science Japan. He is the author of nearly 100 papers/patents/books and has organized or co-organized 15 symposia at national meetings/workshops since 1981. He is also an Associate Editor of Macromolecules.