Book Description:
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 aluminum, 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 fibers, 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 book presents leading-edge research in this rapidly-changing and evolving field.

Table of Contents:
Preface;

Chapter 1.-Electrical and Magnetic Behavior of Homometallic and Heterometallic of Polyethylenediaminecarbosilazane-Based Metallopolymers; pp. 1-27
(Isam Arafa, Hassan El-Ghanem and Sufyan Nemrat, Jordan Univ. of Science and Technology, Jordan);

Chapter 2.-Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(Dibromophenylene Oxide)s Through Thermal Decomposition of Various Transition Metal Complexes in Solid State; pp. 29-51
(Pinar Çamurlu and Dyugu Kisakürek, Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey);

Chapter 3.-Multiple Melting Behavior in Poly(butylene terephthalate): Calorimetric and Morphological Analyses; pp. 53-71
(M.L. Di Lorenzo, Istituto di Clinica e Tecnologia dei Polimeri, Italy and M.C. Righetti, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy);

Chapter 4.-UV-Curable Polydimethylsiloxane Epoxy Acrylate; pp. 73-94 (Weizhi Wang, Fudan Univ., P.R. China);

Chapter 5.-Sorption Phenomena of Organic Solvents on Polymer Surfaces; pp. 95-133
(Fatemah Sabzi and Ali Bousheri, Shiraz Univ., Iran);

Chapter 6.-Development of Polyester Type Shape Memory Polymer and its Application to Composite Material; pp. 135-162
(Yong-Chan Chung, Byoung Chul Chun, The Univ. of Suwon, Korea);

Chapter 7.-The Potential Chemiluminescence in the Research of Thermal Oxidation of Polymers; pp. 163-191
(Lyda Matisová-Rychlá and Jozef Rychlý, Polymer Institute, Slovakia);

Chapter 8.-The Application of Coupling Reagents in Polymer Synthesis; pp. 193-246
(Anton Blencowe and Wayne Hayes, The Univ. of Reading, UK);

Index.