Glass Transitions of Multi-phase Systems

The general references for the equilibrium thermodynamics of polymers are as follows FloryPJ (1953) Principles of Polymer Chemistry. Cornell University Press, Ithaca (and later reprints) Billmeyer FW (1984) Textbook of Polymer Science, Chaps 7 and 8. Wiley-Interscience, New York Morawetz H (1979) Macromolecules in Solution. Wiley, New York. 

References to many interaction parameters % are given in Barton AFM (1990) Handbook of Polymer-Liquid Interaction Parameters and Solubility Parameters. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 

The main reference for this part of the course is Wunderlich B (1976,1980) Macromolecular Physics, Volume II, Crystal Nucleation, Growth, Annealing, and Volume III, Crystal Melting. Academic Press, New York (look for the chapters on copolymer crystallization and melting). 

A general summary of the topic phase diagrams of polymers is given by Porter RS, Jonza JM, KimuraM, DesperCR, George ER (1989) A Review of Phase Behavior in Binary Blends Amorphous, Crystalline, Liquid Crystalline, and On Transreaction. Polymer Eng Sd 29 55-62. 

For the description of the eutectic phase diagram with and without the interaction parameter X, see FloryPJ (1949) Thermod5mamics of Crystallization in High Polymers. IV. A Theory of Crystalline States and Fusion in Polymers, Copolymers, and their Mixtures with Diluents. J Chem Phys 17 223-240 and (1955) Theory of Crystallization in Copolymers. Trans Farad Soc 51 848-857. 

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