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Vol.
25 No. 4
July - August 2003
Molecular
Order and Mobility in Polymer Systems
T.
M. Birshtein (symposium ed.)
Macromolecular
Symposia, Vol 191.
Wiley-VCH, 2003, pp. 1–200 (ISBN 3-527-30695-1)
This
issue of Macromolecular Symposia features papers by invited
speakers to the International Symposium on Molecular Order
and Mobility in Polymer Systems, which was the fourth in a
series of IUPAC-sponsored meetings on macromolecules held
in St. Petersburg, Russia. The focus of the symposium was
on problems of the equilibrium state in polymer systems. Unfortunately,
not all of the speakers could present their work since some
material had been published or submitted elsewhere. Nevertheless,
this issue provides a more or less complete picture of the
symposium.
The event was organized by the institute of Macromolecular
Compounds of the Russian Academy of Scientists (RAS). The
co-organizers of the symposium were the Department of Chemistry
and Material Science of RAS and the Scientific Polymer Council
of RAS. The symposium was sponsored by IUPAC and supported
by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the St. Petersburg
Research Center of RAS.
The
symposium featured 33 invited lectures, 33 oral communications,
and 260 poster presentations. Invited lectures were given
by well-known, active researchers, including Nobel Prize Winner
P.-G. de Gennes; academicians of RAS; major scientists from
Germany, France, Japan, USA, Canada, Netherlands, Spain, Greece,
Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The papers represented in this
issue are divided into seven thematic groups. Some work could
be placed into several groups, and is so indicated. It is
worth mentioning that some of the publications differ from
the presentations made by their authors at the symposium,
reflecting the results of the symposium itself.
Following
is a sampling of the many papers to be found in this issue:
- P.
G. de Gennes, Weak Segregation in Molten Statistical Copolymers
- A.
Darinskii, Computer Simulation of the Liquid Crystal Formation
in a Semi-Flexible Polymer System
- Blumen,
Network Models and Their Dynamics: Probes of Topological
Structure
- M.
Cohen-Stuart, When Tethered Chains Meet Free Ones: the Stability
of Polymer Wetting Films on Polymer Brushes
- J.
François, Effects of Temperature on Neutron Scattering
from Aqueous Solutions of Hydrophobically Modified Poly(ethylene
oxide)
The
contents of this issue reflect researchers’ progress
toward more complicated systems with the elements of nanostructure
organization. This trend will be more pronounced at the 5th
St. Petersburg Symposium, which is planned to take place in
2005.
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