Includes Morphology - Property Relationship in Rubber-Based Nanocomposites - Some Recent Developments; Rubber - Clay Nanocomposites - Some Recent Results; Surface Modification of Fillers and Curatives by Plasma Polymerization for Enhanced Performance of Single Rubbers and Dissimilar Rubber/Rubber Blends; and, more.

This title details aspects of biopolymers and hydrogels from crosslinking to the freeze-thaw method, device aplications of polymer-nanocomposites, to application of 1-Diphenylethylene chemistry in anionic synthesis of polymers with controlled structures.

Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume presents authoritatively state-of-the-art applications of measuring and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by leading experts.

This series presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics and materials science. It is addressed to all scientists at universities and in industry who wish to keep abreast of advances in the topics covered.

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