Frontiers of Polymer Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
An Overview of the Development of Plastic Optical Fibers....Pages 5-26
Multifunctional Polymers — An Industrial Perspective....Pages 27-44
Polymers for Photonics....Pages 45-62
Nonlinear Optical Devices: Relative Status of Polymeric Materials....Pages 63-69
Recent Development of Polymers for Nonlinear Optics....Pages 71-82
Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy in Conjugated Polymeric Thin Films....Pages 83-101
Thin Films Systems for Seperation and Opto-Electronic Applications....Pages 103-114
Static and Dynamic Photo-Induced Index of Refraction Changes....Pages 115-123
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Thiophene Based Conjugated Polymers....Pages 125-141
Optical Studies of Polysilanes....Pages 143-148
New Copolymers for Nonlinear Optics Application which Incorporate Electroactive Subunits with Well Defined Conjugation Lengths....Pages 149-156
Second Harmonic Generation in Langmuir-Blodgett Films of N -Docosyl-4-Nitroaniline....Pages 157-166
Second Harmonic Generation by Thermoplastic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Films....Pages 167-172
Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity and Conductivity of 2, 5-Disubstituted Poly(1, 4-Phenylene Vinylene) Composites with SOL-GEL Processed Inorganic Glasses....Pages 173-182
Optical Properties of Polydiacetylenes with π -Conjugating Substituents in Solution and Solid State....Pages 183-187
Application of Liquid Crystals in Space Activities....Pages 189-193
Development of Multilayer AR Coatings Derived from Alkoxide Based Polymeric Sols....Pages 195-199
Third Order Nonlinear Optical Response of Pure and Doped Polyphenyl Acetylene: A Wavelength Dependence Study....Pages 201-205
Photopolymer Trends in Optics....Pages 207-211
Emerging Developments in Plastic Optical Fibers....Pages 213-217
Spectroscopic Analysis of Soluble and Processable Electroactive Polymers....Pages 219-222
Optical Properties of Oriented Conjugated Polymers and Copolymers....Pages 223-231
Diacetylenes with Formally Conjugated Sidegroups : Precursors to Liquid Crystalline Polymers ?....Pages 233-237
Polymers for Electronics....Pages 239-244
A View on Industrialization of Conducting Polymers Looking Out of Polymer Battery Development....Pages 245-257
Science and Technology of Conducting Polymers....Pages 259-270
Synthetic Routes to Intrinsically Conducting Organic Materials ICOMs....Pages 271-280
Newer Polymeric Applications in Electronics....Pages 281-287
The C=C Stretch Mode: A Probe for Molecular and Electronic Structure in Conjugated Polymers....Pages 289-295
Photoconductive Polymers: Chemical Structures and Technical Performance....Pages 297-313
Polymers and Doped Polymers for Applications in Electrophotography....Pages 315-333
Conducting Polymer Alloy....Pages 335-338
Electronic Phenomena in Polyanilines....Pages 339-349
The Preparation of Highly Conductive Polypyrrole Composite Film by Chemical Polymerization in Solution....Pages 351-357
Dielectric Response of Polypyrrole at Microwave and Infrared Frequencies....Pages 359-369
Molecular Design of Amorphous Piezoelectric Polymers with the Aid of NMR....Pages 371-376
Thermal Treatment of Emeraldine : X.P.S. and UV-Visible Spectroscopic Approach....Pages 377-383
Structural Features in Alkali-Metal Doped Conjugated Polymers....Pages 385-394
Polymer Ceramic Composites for Temperature Independent Capacitors....Pages 395-400
Metal/Semiconducting Polyaniline Heterojunctions....Pages 401-405
Chiral Conducting Poly (3-Alkylthiophenes): Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Properties....Pages 407-411
Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Composites: Electro-Optic Response Behaviour and Their Applications....Pages 413-417
Composites of Polyaniline for Antistatic Applications....Pages 419-424
Electronic Structure of Polyacene: One Dimensional Graphite....Pages 425-429
Phthalocyanine Based Electrically Conducting Polymers....Pages 431-436
Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties of a Flexible Polymer-Ceramic Composite Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride and Barium Titanate....Pages 437-441
A Model for AC Conduction of Conducting Polymers....Pages 443-447
Conducting Composites....Pages 449-453
Piezo — Electric Characteristics of Polymer / Ceramic Composites in 1–3 Connectivity....Pages 455-459
Future Aerospace Needs for High Performance Materials....Pages 461-465
Some Novel Organic-Inorganic Composites....Pages 467-478
Dynamic Mechanical and Dielectric Properties of Sulfonylated Poly(2, 6-Dimethyl-1, 4-Phenylene Oxide) Copolymers....Pages 479-488
Morphology of Poly(Vinylalcohol) Gels Prepared from Solution....Pages 489-495
The Role of Matrix on the Mechanical Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites....Pages 497-504
Studies on the Thermal Transition of Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Poly(Oxetanes)s....Pages 505-517
Processable Rigid Polymers Containing Spiroacetal Units....Pages 519-527
Characteristics of Modified Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) Fibers....Pages 529-540
Mechanical Properties of Sunhemp Fibre — Polystyrene Composites....Pages 541-547
Radiation Based Depolymerisation and Damages....Pages 549-552
A Novel Polyimide for High Performance Composites....Pages 553-557
High Energy Radiation Resistant Elastomeric Composites....Pages 559-563
Modification of Polyvinyl Butyral Properties Via the Incorporation of Ionomer Groups....Pages 565-569
Study of Phase Transitions in Gamma — Irradiated Polyvinylidene Fluoride Using X-ray Diffraction and Its Correlation to Thermoluminscence....Pages 571-581
Synthesis, Characterization and Binding Properties of Epoxy Resins Based on Carbonohydrazones and Thiocarbonohydrazones....Pages 583-588
Influence of Hydroxyl Content on the Functionality Distribution and Gumstock Properties of Polybutadiene....Pages 589-594
Synthesis of Amorphous Nylon 6 Using New Initiator System....Pages 595-599
Tribological Behavior of Redmud Filled Polyester Composites....Pages 601-605
Flexible Liquid Crystalline Main Chain Thermotropic Copolyesters....Pages 607-613
Back Matter....Pages 615-619
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