Polymers research background

Conductive plastics are a fascinating subject for polymer research. More than other fields of polymer research and applications, they call for interdisciplinary treatment in basic research from the point of view of the chemist (synthesis, analysis, structural research), physicist (surface structures, lattices), physical chemist (thermodynamics, especially of non-equilibrium states) and engineer (process technology) working with the relevant specialists with an applications-oriented background, in short what they require is genuine materials research. 

The two audiences for this book are nonlinear dynamicists who are interested in learning about polymers, and polymer researchers who are interested in learning about nonhnear dynamics. The problem of the former is they are unlikely to have a background in polymer chemistry. Polymer researchers are equally unlikely to have knowledge of dynamics. 

Scientists who joined the Polymer Research Institute at Brooklyn Polytechnic were encouraged by Herman Mark to carry out research in areas they might have been familiar with in their studies of small molecules. Professor Mark knew from his scientific experience that there existed no boundaries between the principles of the science that depended on molecular size. In 1980 therefore when I first met him on joining Polytech he asked about my background and, on discovering that I had an interest in stereochemistry and chirality, he suggested that I look at the stereochemical properties of the vinyl polymers. This led me to read the work of two... 

Double-resonance methods, such as ELDOR, can also be used to obtain information on the dynamics of paramagnetic species. Such approaches are not considered in this chapter. Technical aspects and theory of CW ELDOR and ENDOR experiments will not be discussed, as pulsed techniques are nowadays more common, in particular for work on the highly viscous or solid systems that are typical for polymer research. Finally, this chapter is devoted exclusively to the description of the theoretical background and the concepts of double-resonance experiments. Applications are described in Chapter 7. 

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