| (Chapter Headings) Foreword by / P.G. de Gennes |
| Authors Preface |
| Introduction: Physics in the World of Giant Molecules |
| What Does a Polymer Molecule Look Like? What Kinds of Polymer Substances are There? Polymers in Nature |
| TheMathematics of a Simple Polymer Coil |
| The Physics of High Elasticity |
| The Problem of Excluded Volume |
| Coils and Globules. Dynamics of Polymeric Fluids |
| The Mathematics of Complicated Polymer Structures: Fractals |
| Polymers and the Origin of Life |
| How to Make Movies with the Application Polymer Program on the CD ROM / Appendix： |
| Suggested Further Reading |
| List of Figures |
| Flexibility Mechanisms |
| A"Portrait"of a Polymer Chain |
| Heteropolymers, Branched and Charged Macromolecules. Ring Macromolecules and Topological Effects. How are Polymers Made? What Kinds of Polymer Substances are There?"Traditional"States of Matter and Polymers. Possible States of Polymer Substances |
| Plastics |
| Polymeric Fibres |
| Polymeric Liquid Crystals and Superstrong Fibres |
| Polymer Solutions |
| Polymer Blends and Block-Copolymers |
| Ionomers and Associating Polymers |
| Polymers in Nature: A Few Words About Water and the Love or Fear of It. Head-and-Tail molecules |
| Molecular Biology and Molecular Architecture |
| Molecular Machines: Proteins, RNA, and DNA. The Chemical Structure of Proteins, DNA and RNA Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Structures of Biopolymers |
| Globular Protein Enzymes |
| Tertiary Structuresof Other Biopolymers |
| Physics and Biology |
| The Mathematics of a Simple Polymer Coil: Mathematics in Physics |
| Analogy Between a Polymer Chain and Brownian Motion |
| The Size of a Polymer Coil |
| Derivation of the"Square Root"Law Persistent Length andKuhn Segment |
| The Density of a Polymer Coil and Concentration Ranges of a Polymer Solution The Gaussian Distribution |
| The Physics of High Elasticity: Columbus Discovered |
| Natural Rubber |
| High Elasticity. The Discovery of Vulcanisation |
| SyntheticRubber |
| High Elasticity and Stretching of an Individual Polymer Chain. Entropy. Entropic Elasticity of a Polymer Chain |
| Entropic Elasticity of a Polymer Network |
| The Guch-Joule Effect and Thermal Phenomena During the Deformation of Rubber. The Problem of Excluded Volume: Linear Memory and Volume Interactions. Excluded Volume--Formulating the Problem |
| The Density of a Coil and Collisions of Monomer Units |
| Good and Bad Solvents, and Conditions. The Swelling of a Polymer Coil in a Good Solvent.The Excluded Volume Effect in a Semi-Dilute Solution. The Compatibility of Polymer Blends. Coils and Globules: What is a Coil-Globule Transition. The Free Energy of a Globule |
| The Energy of Monomer Interactions. The Entropy Contribution. The Swelling Coefficient The Coil-Globule Transition |
| Pre-Transitional Swelling. Experimental Observation of the Coil-Globule Transition. Dynamics of the Coil-Globule Transition |
| Some Generalisations |
| The Collapse of Polymer Networks |
| The Globular State of the DNA Double Helix |
| Globular Structure of Proteins and Conformational Transitions in Globular Proteins |
| In Vivo, In Vitro, In Virtuo |
| Dynamics of Polymeric Fluids: Viscosity. Viscoelasticity |
| The Reptation Model The LongestRelaxation Time Young's Modulus of a Network of Effective Crosslinks |
| The Tube The Dependence of the Longest Relaxation Time on the Chain Length |
| The Viscosity of a Polymer Melt and the Self-Diffusion Coefficient |
| Experimental Tests of the Theory of Reptation |
| Reptation Theory and the Gel-Electrophoresis of DNA |
| The Theory of Reptation and the Gel Effect During Polymerisation |
| The Mathematics of Complicated Polymer Structures: Fractals: A Bit More About Maths in Physics: How Does a Physicist Determine the Dimensionality of a Space? Deterministic Fractals, or How to Draw Beautiful Patterns |
| Self-Similarity |
| (Chapter Headings) Foreword by / P.G. de Gennes |
| Authors Preface |
| Introduction: Physics in the World of Giant Molecules |
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