Polymeric Liquids & Networks: Dynamics and Rheology is the second part
of a two-volume treatise serving as a status report on a broad area of
polymer science research. It represents an effort to unify and
consolidate the work of many polymer researchers from all over the
world, over the past 60-70 years. Both books are based on the graduate
courses taught by the author at Princeton and Northwestern. The
increasing need to apply new understandings about liquid structure to
rheological behavior squeezed equilibrium aspects out of the rheology
course and into another graduate course, which eventually became the
basis for Volume 1, Structure and Properties, published in 2004.
Volume 2 follows the original plan by building upon Volume 1--covering
continuum background along with experimental observations, then
molecular theories and applications to such topics as solution
properties, long-chain branching and structural heterodispersity.
Dynamics and Rheology aims to leave readers with a solid grounding in
the principles that underlie the dynamics and rheological behavior of
flexible chain polymer liquids and networks. Readers will develop an
informed intuitive understanding of the connections between polymeric
structure and rheological response. Theory, experiment, and simulation
are woven together so as to leave the reader with a balanced grasp of
the various areas, including exposure to important unsolved puzzles. The
book will be a great resource for a range of academic researchers in
chemistry, physics, materials science, and chemical engineering.
