Gennes Pierre-Giles De. Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics 1979 [pdf 326sc 326c. 4.25mb] Pierre-Giles De Gennes The first stage of the physics of long, flexible chains was pioneered by eminent scientists such as Debye, Kuhn, Kramers, and Flory, who formulated the basic ideas. In recent years, because of the availability of new experimental and theoretical tools, a second stage of the physics of polymers has evolved. In this book, a noted physicist explains the radical changes that have taken place in this exciting and rapidly developing field. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes points out the three developments that have been essential for recent advances in the study of large-scale conformations and motions of flexible polymers in solutions and melts. They are the advent of neutron-scattering experiments on selectively deuterated molecules; the availability of inelastic scattering of laser light, which allows us to study the cooperative motions of the chains; and the discovery of an important relationship between polymer statistics and critical phenomena, leading to many simple scaling laws. Until now, information relating to these advances has not been readily accessible to physical chemists and polymer scientists because of the difficulties in the new theoretical language that has come into use. Professor de Gennes bridges this gap by presenting scaling concepts in terms that will be understandable to students in chemistry and engineering as well as in physics. Cover Page......Page 1 Title: Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics......Page 3 ISBN 080141203X......Page 4 I: A Single Chain......Page 5 III: Polymer Solutions in Good Solvents......Page 6 V: Polymer Gels......Page 7 VII: Many-Chain Systems: The Respiration Modes......Page 8 IX: Self-Consistent Fields and Random Phase Approximation......Page 9 XI: An Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas......Page 10 Indexes......Page 11 Preface......Page 13 Part A: STATIC CONFORMATIONS......Page 27 I: A Single Chain......Page 29 II: Polymer Melts......Page 54 III: Polymer Solutions in Good Solvents......Page 69 IV: Incompatibility and Segregation......Page 98 V: Polymer Gels......Page 128 Part B: DYNAMICS......Page 163 VI: Dynamics of a Single Chain......Page 165 VII: Many-Chain Systems: The Respiration Modes......Page 205 VIII: Entanglement Effects......Page 219 Part C: CALCULATION METHODS......Page 243 IX: Self-Consistent Fields and Random Phase Approximation......Page 245 X: Relationships between Polymer Statistics and Critical Phenomena......Page 265 XI: An Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas......Page 290 Author lndex......Page 317 Subject lndex......Page 321
