Polymers and Other Advanced MaterialsEmerging Technologies and Business Opportunities Book

	Composite Applications in Commercial Transport Aircraft	1
	High Mechanical Performance Composites and Design of Composite Structures	7
	Preparation of Novel Polyamide 6 Blends Made by Reactive Extrusion Compounding	19
	Preparation and Properties of Hairy-Rod Molecular Composites	27
	Vibration Control in Fibre-Reinforced Composite Structures	37
	Fatigue Behavior of Long Fiber Reinforced Polyamide and Polycarbonate Composites Under Tension-Tension Loading	53
	Poly(arylene ether ketone) Chemistry Recent Advances in Synthesis and Applications	69
	Morphology Modification of Polymer Blend Films by Electric Field	83
	Reactive Blending of PET and Liquid Crystalline Polymer	93
	Miscibility of Polymer Blends at the Air/Water Interface	101
	Optimization in Thermoplastic Prepregging System	109
	Thermal Properties of NR-LLDPE Thermoplastic Blends	117
	Flow and Fracture Behavior of Sand-Reinforced Low Density Polyethylene during Tensile Testing	125
	Effect of Hygrothermal Aging on the Tensile Properties of Short Glass Fiber Reinforced Nylon 6.6	133
	Finite Element Analysis of Plastic Yielding at a Circular Hole in a Laminated Composite Plate Based on Refined Plate Theory	141
	Heat Treatment Behavior of Metal Matrix Composites	159
	Biodegradable Polymer Blends	169
	Improved Mechanical Properties of Polymer Films Dried from the Swollen State in Uniaxial and Biaxial States of Strain	177
	Recent Developments and Perspectives in ABS Resin	185
	Recent Advances in Polypropylene-Based Materials, Properties and Applications	189
	Surface Modification of Silicones	201
	Design of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers	213
	Polymers in Space Environments	221
	Advanced Turbulent Drag Reducing and Flocculating Materials Based on Polysaccharides	227
	Origin of Crystallinity in Block and Random Terephthalate-Sebacate Copolymers as Studied Using Monte Carlo Methods	251
	Structural Design Synthesis of Marine Crafts Using FRP Materials in Sandwich Constructions	263
	The Effect of Fluorine Gas Mixtures on the Surface Properties of Polyolefins	273
	Synthesis and Biological Activities of Endo-3,6-Epoxy-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydrophthalimide and Its Polymers	291
	Optic Characterization of Oligo-Thiophene Multilayers	297
	The Present State of, and Future Prospects for, Large-Area Full-Color DC PDPs	303
	Dielectric and Dipole Moment Study of Charge Transfer Complexes of Poly(N-Vinylcarbazole) and 2,4,7-Trinitro-9-Fluorenone	311
	Comparative Study of the Raman Spectra of Different Forms of Polyanilines	317
	The Lowest Excited States in Oligo(Phenylenevinylene)s A Theoretical Investigation of Optical Absorption Spectra and Geometry Relaxation Phenomena	327
	Chemical and Electronic Structure of Interfaces with Conjugated Polymers Systems of Interest in Molecular Electronics Applications	335
	Synthesis of Poly(2-methoxy-5-methyl-1,4-phenylenevinylene), Substituent Effects on the Electrical and Nonlinear Optical Properties	347
	A Soluble and Electrically Conducting Polymer System Incorporating Thiophene and Acetylenic Moeities	355
	Limiting Factors in Operation and Fabrication of Organic Electroluminescence Devices	361
	Electrical Properties of Impurity Doped Ion Conducting Polymers	369
	The Optical Properties and the A.C. Conductivity of the Gamma-Irradiated ABS Material	379
	Processible Aromatic Polyamides Derived from 2,5-BIS(4-Aminophenyl-3,4-Diphenyl Thiophene and Aromatic Diacid Chlorides	385
	Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals for Electronic Applications	393
	Optical Devices Utilizing Nonlinear Organic Materials	405
	Nonlinear Electro-Optical and Holographic Storage Effect in Fullerene-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystal Film	421
	Patterning of Polydiacetylene Waveguides by Means of Argon Laser Photobleaching	433
	Polymers as Multi-role Materials for Photonics Technology	441
	Dichromated Polyvinyl Alcohol Real-Time Hologram Recording: A Study on the Effect of Some External Electron Donors and Humidity	451
	Highly Efficient Liquid Crystal Polymers for Quadratic Nonlinear Optics	465
	Novel Electro-Optic Polyimide and Polyamide Side Chain and Main Chain Polymers	485
	Bulk Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation in Drawn and Poled Polymers	493
	Synthesis and Processing Relevant to Systems Integration of Nonlinear Optical Materials	503
	Optics as a Means for Studying the Orientational Mobility of Chromophores and for Creating Macroscopic Order in Amorphous Films	511
	A Thermally Stable Organic light-Emitting Diode	523
	New Conjugate Polymers - A Marriage between Synthetic and Natural Polymers	529
	Solid State Batteries from Chitosan Based Biopolymers	539
	Synthesis and Biological Activities of Endo-3,6-Epoxy-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydrophthalimide and Its Polymers	545
	Biotechnological Application of Enzymes from Extremophilic Organisms Synthesis of Modified Monomers	551
	Biologic Responses to Polymers and Other Prosthetic Devices	559
	Bioartificial Polymeric Materials: Natural and Synthetic World Joining in Biomaterials Research	563
	Guidelines for the Re-Stabilization of Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics	571
	Recycling of Thermoset Based Composites	583
	Biodegradable Fibers Made from Truly Biodegradable Thermoplastics	589
	'Environmentally Friendly' Fate of Plastic Waste?