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Figure 11.3 Transmitted polarized light images of a thermally oxidized and crosslinked gel in a multilayer film a) photograph in polarized light, and b) the gel fluorescing under UV light. Photographs were provided by E. Garcia-Meitin of The Dow Chemical Company...

Garcia-Meitin, E. 1., Bar, G., Blackson, J., and Reuschle, D., High Resolution Polymer Imaging Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 14 (Suppl. 2), 1380 (2008)... 

Blackson, J., Garcia-Meitin, E., and Darus, M., High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy Examination of Polymer Morphology, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13 (Suppl. 02), 1062 (2007)... 

Sue HJ, Garcia-Meitin El (1996) Fracture behavior of rubber-modified high-performance epoxies. In Arends CB (ed) Polymer toughening. Marcel Dekker, New York, p 131... 

Qian JY, Pearson RA, Dimonie VL, Shaffer OL, El-Aasser MS (1997) Polymer 38 21 Sue HJ, Garcia-Meitin El, Pickelman DM, Yang PC (1993) Adv Chem Ser 233 259 Beguelin P (1996) Approche exp rimentale du comportement mecanique des pol-ymeres en sollicitation rapide. Thesis N° 1572 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne... 

Sue. H.J.. Jones, R.E. and Garcia-Meitin, E.l. (1993). Fracture behavior of model toughened eomposites under mode I and mode II delamination. J. Mater. Sci. 28, 6381-6391. 

Sue HJ, Yang PC, Puckett PM, Bertram JL, Garcia-Meitin El, In Toughened Plastics II - Novel Approaches in Science and Engineering, Riew, CK, Kinloch AJ (ed), Adv. Chem. Ser. No. 252, ACS, Washington, DC, 1996b, pp. 161-175. 

Sue, H., Garcia-Meitin, E. Pickelman, D. (1996) Fracture behaviour of rubber modified high performance epoxies, in Arends, C.E. (Ed.) Polymer Toughening, New York Marcel Dekker. Sun, L., Aklonis, J. Salovey, R. (1993) Polym. Eng. Sci., 33, 1308-1319. 

Bar G, Tocha E, Garcia-Meitin E, Todd C, Blackson J. J Macromol Symp 2009,282 128. 

Sue Sue, H.-J., Puckett, P. M., Bertram, J. L., Walker, L. L., Garcia-Meitin, E. 1. Structure and property relationships in model diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A and diglycidyl ether of tetra-methyl bisphenol-A epoxy systems. I. Mechanical property characterizations. J. Polym. Sci. Part B - Polym. Phys. 37 (1999) 2137-2149. 

Adapted with permission trom Hustad, P. D. Kuhiman, R. L Arriola, D. J. etal. Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 7061-7064 Copyright 2007 American Chemical Society and Hustad, P. D. Marchand, G. R. Garcia-Meitin, E. I. etal. Macromolecules2009,42,3788. Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society. 

The authors would like to thank Wilson Cheung for useful discussions. We also acknowledge the contributions of Ken Reichek for making blends for us, Jing Li for AFM measurement and Eddie Garcia-Meitin for collecting SEM images. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would hke to thank S. Werner, E. Garcia-Meitin, H. Tung and J. Weinhold of the Dow Chemical Co. for all fiieir assistance and Prof Eric Baer and Prof Aime Hiltner of Case Western Reserve University for permission to use their equipment. 

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