Die Vorlesung kann auf Wunsch auf Deutsch oder Englisch gehalten werden.
Contents:
O Introduction
I Molecular structure and weight distributions
1. chemical structure, chain architecture and classification
2. polymerization processes and mol. weight distributions
3. determination of molecular weight and distributions
II Structure of single chains
1. ideal chains
2. real chains
3. size determination by scattering
III Mechanical properties of polymers
1. mechanics of solids and liquids
2. rubber elasticity
3. basic viscoelasticity
4. time-temperature superposition and glass transition
IV Microscopic polymer dynamics
1. viscosity and diffusion in polymer solutions
2. entanglements and reptation
3. Rouse theory of viscoelasticity
V Thermodynamics of solutions and melts
1. dilute and semidilute solutions
2. Flory-Huggins theory
3. kinetics of phase separation
4. block copolymers
5. semicrystalline polymers
VI Polyelectrolytes and biopolymers
