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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

LEC #TOPICS
1Introduction; hard vs. soft solids; polymerization (PDF - 1.5 MB)
2Chains; thermodynamics of polymer solutions (PDF)
3Thermodynamics (cont.): Mean field; Flory Huggins and lattice theory; entropy and enthalpy of mixing; phase diagrams (PDF)
4Polymer blends; viscosity; osmometry (PDF)
5Osmometry (cont.); SEC (size exclusion chromatography) and GPC (gel permeation chromatography) (PDF - 1.3 MB)
6Scattering; Zimm plots (PDF - 1.1 MB)
7Glass transition temperature Tg (PDF)
8Diffusion of polymers; reptation; elasticity (PDF)
9Gels; Flory-Rehner theory (PDF - 2.0 MB)
10Self organization (PDF - 2.0 MB)
11Intermaterial dividing surface (IMDS); polymer-based photonics (PDF - 3.0 MB)
12Photonic crystals (PDF - 2.2 MB)
13Influence of chain architecture on microdomain characteristics (PDF - 1.8 MB)
14Block copolymer-homopolymer blends (PDF - 1.2 MB)
15Hierarchically ordered BCP-nanoparticle composites (PDF)
16Top down meets bottom up (PDF - 1.6 MB)
17Chain folding; polyethylene and nylon; spherulites (PDF - 1.2 MB)
18Mechanical properties; crazing; microframes and millitrusses (PDF)
19Mechanical properties (cont.) (PDF)
20Single wall and multi-wall nanotubes (SWNT, MWNT) (PDF)
21Electronic polymers (PDF - 2.3 MB)
22Polymer conductives; polypyrrole chains; optical interactions (PDF)
23Wrap-up and review



Supplemental Readings


Ruzette, A.-V., and L. Leibler. "Block copolymers in tomorrow's plastics." Nature Materials 4 (2005): 19-31.


 








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