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Overview
Despite the great strides in nonlinear dynamics over the past 40 years, applying nonlinear dynamics to polymeric systems has not received much attention. This book addresses this absence by covering present theory, modeling,and experiments of nonlinear dynamics in polymeric systems.
Oscillating chemical reactions, propagating fronts,
far-from equilibrium pattern formation, Turing structures,
and chaos are but some of the exotic phenomena discussed in this book.
Synopsis
Based on presentations made at the August 2002 224th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, this work brings together practitioners in both polymer science and nonlinear dynamics to discuss progress made in unveiling and exploiting the nonlinear dynamical aspects of polymer systems and to identify problems that merit further study. After a brief section on background, papers focus on applications for nonlinear dynamics in the making of materials and devices in the categories of gels, frontal polymerization, interfacial systems, phase separation, and oscillatory systems. Some specific topics include bifurcation analysis of polymerization fronts, nonlinear dynamics in surfactant systems, and controlled pattern formation in block copolymer systems. The book is distributed by Oxford University Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR