Polymer structure and physical properties

GORDON, M., High Polymers—Structure and Physical Properties, Iliffe, London, 2nd Edn (1963) HILDEBRAND, J., and scoiT, R., The Solubility of Non-Electrolytes, Reinhold, New York, 3rd Edn (1949)... 

More specifically, conformational analysis can provide information on stable isomeric states, which are defined as minima on energy-deformation plots, and on the energy barriers between these minima. Through these minima, the population of each state at different temperatures at thermodynamic equilibrium can be determined, and a description of the kinetics of the transition from one isomeric state to another can be obtained. Therefore, conformational analysis can define chain flexibility completely. Thus, conformational analysis is the key element required to establish the conceptual bridge between polymer structure and physical properties. 

Gorman, C.B., Ginsburg, E.J., Grubbs, R.H., 1993. Soluble, highly conjugated derivatives of polyacetylene from the ring-opening metathesis polymerization of monosubstituted cyclooctatetraenes synthesis and the relationship between polymer structure and physical properties. I. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 1397-1409. 

Gordon, M., High Polymers Structure and Physical Properties, Iliffe Books Ltd., London, 1963. 

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