About the Book
The 4th International Symposium "Molecular Order and Mobility in Polymer Systems" held in June 2002 continued the series of St.--Petersburg IUPAC meetings organized by the institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Scientists (RAS). The main attention at this symposium was paid to the modern problems of the equilibrium state in polymer science. The lectures published in this book reflect progress of the investigators' interests towards more complicated systems with the elements of nanostructure organization. This volume also contains material dedicated to the memory of an outstanding physicist M.V. Volkenstein (90th anniversary from his birth and 10 years after his death).
Table of Contents:
Contents of Macromol. Symp. 191 4th International Symposium Molecular Order and Mobility in Polymer Systems Saint--Petersburg (Russia), 2002 Preface (T. M. Birshtein). 1. In Memory of M. V. Volkenshtein (Tatiana M. Birshtein, Anna A. Mercurieva). I. Copolymers and Polymer Blends, see also papers 5,6,9,10,11,17,19. 2. Weak Segregation in Molten Statistical Copolymers (Pierre--Gilles de Gennes). 3. Interplay of Chemical and Physical Factors in Reacting Polymer Blends. Theoretical Considerations (Nicolay A. Plate, Arkady D. Litmanovich, Yaroslav V. Kudryavtsev, Elena N. Govorun). 4. Molecular Order and Dynamics in Block Copolymers of Poly (oxybutylene) and Poly(oxyethylene) (Daniel Fragiadakis, Maria Bouga, Apostolos Kyritsis, Polycarpos Pissis, Kyriakos Viras, Withawat Mingvanish, Colin Booth). II. Macromolecules in Solution, see also papers 9,10,11,12,13. 5. A Meanfield Approach to the Thermodynamics of a Protein--Solvent System with Application to the Oligomerization of the Tumor Suppressor p53 (Jaan Noolandi). 6. Computer Simulations of Stretching and Collapse of Polymer Molecules in Solution (Igor M. Neelov, D. B. Adolf, G. R. Davies, Anatoly A. Darinskii, F. Satu Niemela, M. Skrifvars, Franciska Sundholm). III. Polymer Brushes, see also papers 11,20. 7. Microphase Coexistence in Polymeric Brushes (Tatiana M. Birshtein, Victor M. Amoskov, Leonid I. Klushin, Anna A. Mercurieva, Alexey A. Polotsky, Petr A. Iakovlev). 8. Behavior of a Nematic Liquid Near a Grafted Solid Surface (Francoise Brochard--Wyart, Olivier Ou Ramdane, Yvette Tran, Philippe Auroy). 9. When Tethered Chains Meet Free Ones; The Stability of Polymer Wetting Films on Polymer Brushes (Joost H. Maas, Frans A. M. Leermakers, Gerard J. Fleer, Martinus A. Cohen Stuart). 10. Interaction of Dissolved Proteins with Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes (A. Wittemann, B. Haupt, R. Merkle, M. Ballauff). IV. Micelles and Complexes, see also papers 5,9,10. 11. Effects of Temperature on Neutron Scattering from Aqueous Solutions of Hydrophobically Modified Poly(ethylene oxide) (Emmanuel Beaudoin, Oleg Borisov, Alain Lapp, Jeanne Francois). 12. Adsorption of Flexible Polymers on Small Colloids: Complexes and Gels (S. Diez. Orrite, J. Bonet Avalos, A. Johner, J. F. Joanny). 13. Self--Organization of Ionic Surfactants Controlled by Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes (Victor A. Kabanov, Alexander B. Zezin, Victor A. Kasaikin, Julia A. Zakharova, Ekaterina A. Litmanovich, Elena M. Ivleva). V. Polymer Networks, see also papers 4,12. 14. Elastomers with Multimodal Distributions of Network Chain Lengths (J. E. Mark). 15. The Relaxation Spectra of Polymer Networks with Different Types of Topology, Ordering, Heterogeneity (Yuli Ya. Gotlib, Andrew A. Gurtovenko, Isaak A. Torchinskii, Vladimir A. Shevelev, Vladimir P. Toshchevikov). 16. Network Models and their Dynamics: Probes of Topological Structure (Alexander Blumen, Aurel Jurjiu, Thorsten Koslowski). VI. Bulk Polymers, see also papers 2,3,4,14,15,16,20. 17. Scale Dependent Diffusion in Latex Films Studied by Photoinduced Grating Relaxation Technique (Eckhard Bartsch, Thilo Jahr, Thomas Eckert, Hans Sillescu, Andrei Veniaminov). 18. Computer Simulation Study of Bulk Atactic Polystyrene in the Vicinity of the Glass Transition (Alexey V. Lyulin, J. J. De Groot, M. A. J. Michels). 19. Dielectric Relaxations in Polymers Containing Dioxacyclohexane Rings by Thermostimulated Depolarization Currents (Ricardo Diaz--Calleja, Maria Jesus Sanchis, Milton Aravena, Evaristo Riande, Julio Guzman). VII. LC Polymer Systems, see also papers 7,8,15. 20. Computer Simulation of the Liquid Crystal Formation in a Semi--Flexible Polymer System (Anatoly A. Darinskii, Igor M. Neelov, Anna Zarembo, Nikolai K. Balabaev, Franciska Sundholm, Kurt Binder).
