Book Description:
For last five years polymers have revolutionized all spheres of human endeavor and, therefore, have been the focus of intense investigation by academic and industrial researchers. One of the most important problems in polymer applications is a comprehension of water transport phenomena attending to production, exploitation, and storage of polymer materials or articles.
Conceptually this collection is partitioned into three, thematically bonded sections including academic aspects, experimental procedures, and practical application aspects including such intriguing subjects as exposure of polymer composites to earth orbit space environments. Advancement in the understanding of specific behavior of water in polymers with different hydrophilicity and morphology has to open the way to design the novel constructional and biomedical materials as well as ecologically friendly packaging films and selective membranes.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Impact of Structure and Morphology upon Water Transport in Polymers with Moderate Hydrophilicity. From Traditional to Novel Environmentally Friendly Polymers (A. L. Iordanskii); Modeling of Anomalous Diffusion with Fitter Software (A. L. Pomerantsev); Mutual Diffusion of Poly(N-Vinyl Pyrrolidone) and Water (D. F. Bairamov, A. E. Chalykh, M. M. Feldstein, R. A. Sigel, and N. A. Plate); Molecular Arrangement of Water Associated with Poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) in the First Hydrate Shell (T. L. Lebedeva, S. A. Kuptsov, M. M. Feldctein, and N. A. Plate); Comparison of Dielectric and Gravimetric Analysis of Water Vapor Sorption and Diffusion Kinetics in Thin Polymer Coatings (P. G. Babayevsky, N. A. Kozlov, A. A. Zhukov); Moisture Sorption and its Effect on Mechanical Properties of Polymer Materials (A. Aniskevich, J. Jansons, and O. Plushchik);Moisture Diffusion Properties OF Carbon/Epoxy and Glass/Epoxy Composite Materials after Exposure to Low Earth Orbit Space Environment (V. Issoupov, A. S. Krotov, O. V. Startsev, E. F. Nikishin, V. Viel-Inguimbert, M. Dinguirard , C. Lacabanne); Properties and Structure of Polymeric Composite Materials from Wood Hydrolyzed by the Method of Steam Blasting (B. N. Salin, O. V. Startsev); Water Diffusion, Crystalline Structure and Mechanical Properties of Novel PHB-PVA Blends (A. L. Iordanskii, A. A. Ol’khov, O. V. Startsev, G. E, Zaikov, and U. J. Hanggi); Author Index; Subject Index.