Structure and Properties of Glassy Polymers Book

	Preface
1	The Structure and Properties of Glassy Polymers: An Overview	1
2	The Use of Configurational Entropy To Derive the Kinetic Properties of Polymer Glasses	22
3	Entropy, Landscapes, and Fragility in Liquids and Polymers, and the [Delta]Cp Problem	37
4	Dynamic Properties of Polymer Melts above the Glass Transition: Monte Carlo Simulation Results	53
5	The Thermal Glass Transition Beyond the Time Trap	78
6	Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulation and Dielectric Measurements of the Effect of Pore Size on Glass Transition Temperature and the State of the Glass	90
7	Temperature-Modulated Calorimetry of the Frequency Dependence of the Glass Transition of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) and Polystyrene	103
8	Polymer Glasses: Thermodynamic and Relaxational Aspects	118
9	Structural Relaxation and Fragility of Glass-Forming Miscible Blends Composed of Atactic Polystyrene and Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide)	133
10	Dielectric Spectroscopy of Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate and Some of Its Blends	144
11	Physical Aging near the Beta Transition of a Poly(amide-imide)	158
12	Low-Temperature Relaxation of Polymers Probed by Photochemical Hole Burning	173
13	Fitting Differential Scanning Calorimetry Heating Curves for Polyetherimide Using a Model of Structural Recovery	188
14	The Physics of Glassy Polycarbonate: Superposability and Volume Recovery	199
15	Polymer-Polymer Miscibility Investigated by Temperature Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry	218
16	Physical Aging in PMMA Investigated Using Positron Annihilation, Dielectric Relaxation, and Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis	228
17	Craze Initiation and Failure in Glassy Poly(ethylene Terephthalate): The Effects of Physical Aging with and Without Exposure to Chemical Environments	242
18	Transitions, Properties, and Molecular Mobility During Cure of Thermosetting Resins	258
19	A Dynamic Probe of Tribological Processes at Metal-Polymer Interfaces: Transient Current Generation	272
20	The Effect of Orientation by Solid State Processes on the Amorphous Regions in Poly(vinyl alcohol) and High Density Poly(ethylene)	286
21	Free Volume and Transport Properties of Barrier and Membrane Polymers	306
22	The Segmental Motion and Gas Permeability of Glassy Polymer Poly (1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) Membranes	326
23	Vacancy Spectroscopy of Polymers Using Positronium	334
24	Subnanometer Hole Properties of Cellulose Studied by Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy	355
25	Ionic Conductivity in Glassy PVOH-Lithium Salt Systems	367
26	Oxygen Transport Through Electronically Conductive Polyanilines	383
27	Xenon-129 NMR as a Probe of Polymer Sorption Sites: A New View of Structure and Transport	394
28	Dissolution Mechanism of Glassy Polymers: A Molecular Analysis	413
29	Gas Barrier and Thermal Properties of (Alkylsulfonyl)methyl-Substituted Poly(oxyalkylene)s	433
	Author Index	454
	Subject Index	455