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Cyclophosphazenes are a fascinating group of inorganic heterocyclic compounds whose chemistry is multi-faceted, well developed and reasonably well understood. They are closely related to the linear poly-phosphazenes this relationship is unlike any other existing between ring-polymer systems. Although cyclic siloxanes and polysiloxanes have a close interrelationship, the number and types of cyclophospha-zene derivatives that are known, together with their exact counterparts in polyphosphazenes, underscore the utility of cyclophosphazenes as models for the more complex polyphosphazenes. The literature on cyclophosphazenes has appeared earlier in the form of books (1,2), chapters of books (3-5), authoritative compilations of data (6,7), and several reviews (8-21). The current literature on this subject is reported annually in the Specialist Periodic Reports published by the Royal Society of chemistry (22). This review deals mostly with chlorocyclo-... 

Both theoretical and experimental evidence suggest that the precise nature of the charge carriers in conjugated polymer systems varies from material to material, and it is still a subject of debate in many cases. A discussion of the various theoretical models for the electronic structure of conjugated polymers is given below, using polyacetylene and poly(paraphenylene) as examples. More detailed information on these materials and the applicability of these theoretical models is given in subsequent sections. 

Oil-field chemistry has undergone major changes since the publication of earlier books on this subject Enhanced oil recovery research has shifted from processes in which surfactants and polymers are the primary promoters of increased oil production to processes in which surfactants are additives to improve the incremental oil recovery provided by steam and miscible gas injection fluids. Improved and more cost-effective cross-linked polymer systems have resulted from a better understanding of chemical cross-links in polysaccharides and of the rheological behavior of cross-linked fluids. The thrust of completion and hydraulic fracturing chemical research has shifted somewhat from systems designed for ever deeper, hotter formations to chemicals, particularly polymers, that exhibit improved cost effectiveness at more moderate reservoir conditions. 

The effect of aging and of process variables on the rheological properties of solid proplnts has been the subject of mechanical shear relaxation spectroscopy (Ref 4). The technique is of interest to such filled polymer systems generally in that anisotropy in the viscoelastic properties can be readily observed... 

In production units, and during processing, polymer systems are subjected to considerable shear rates. Recently the effect of shear on the phase behaviour was clearly demonstrated by several groups, e.g. by Aelmans and Reid. [10]. 

Subject areas for the Series include solutions of electrolytes, liquid mixtures, chemical equilibria in solution, acid-base equilibria, vapour-liquid equilibria, liquid-liquid equilibria, solid-liquid equilibria, equilibria in analytical chemistry, dissolution of gases in liquids, dissolution and precipitation, solubility in cryogenic solvents, molten salt systems, solubility measurement techniques, solid solutions, reactions within the solid phase, ion transport reactions away from the interface (i.e. in homogeneous, bulk systems), liquid crystalline systems, solutions of macrocyclic compounds (including macrocyclic electrolytes), polymer systems, molecular dynamic simulations, structural chemistry of liquids and solutions, predictive techniques for properties of solutions, complex and multi-component solutions applications, of solution chemistry to materials and metallurgy (oxide solutions, alloys, mattes etc.), medical aspects of solubility, and environmental issues involving solution phenomena and homogeneous component phenomena. 

In the previous sections, theories were reviewed where the optical properties of polymer liquids were cast in terms of the microscopic properties of the constituent chains. The dynamics of polymer chains subject to external fields that orient and distort these complex liquids are considered in this section for a variety of systems ranging from dilute solutions to melts. Detailed descriptions of theories for the dynamics and structure of polymer fluids subject to flow are found in a number of books, including those by Bird et al. [62], Doi and Edwards [63], and Larson [64],... 

Distinct butterfly patterns have also been observed when inhomogeneous gels are deformed by uniaxial deformation. The length scales in such systems, however, are usually much smaller that those encountered for polymer solutions subject to flow, and small-angle... 

The final chapter on applications of optical rheometric methods brings together examples of their use to solve a wide variety of physical problems. A partial list includes the use of birefringence to measure spatially resolved stress fields in non-Newtonian flows, the isolation of component dynamics in polymer/polymer blends using spectroscopic methods, the measurement of the structure factor in systems subject to field-induced phase separation, the measurement of structure in dense colloidal dispersions, and the dynamics of liquid crystals under flow. 

The fractions of protons decaying according to relaxation functions Rx and R2 are given by fj and f2. In molten polymers this relationship has long been exploited to provide a measure of the crosslink density in many polymer systems [64-83]. The form of the decay functions has been the subject of much discussion, however, it is often observed that Rj and R2 can be approximated by simple exponential decay functions. It is generally accepted that the protons with short relaxation times are those directly attached to or adjacent to crosslink points. As an example Figure 13.4 shows the decays of transverse... 

Other Transient Interactions. The PVA/borax example dealt with the effects of surface exposure of a two-component polymer system to a wetting liquid. We discovered a practical example of this class of phenomena in a plasticized poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) system. A peculiar plasticizer (tetraethyl methylene bisphosphonate) for PVC has been found (6) which has the unusual property of exuding out of PVC immediately upon exposure to high humidity. The plasticizer quickly re-enters the resin when the humidity is reduced. A film of 60% resin and 40% plasticizer was solvent cast from tetrahydrofuran onto an impedometer bar and was subjected to sudden high humidity exposure. 

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