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Polymer Program SeminarRelating Polymer Rhelogy and Miscibility to Chemical Architecture Monday, September 18, 2006 11:00 am , IMS Room 20 The ability to predict polymer properties from a knowledge of the chemical architecture is one of the main goals of polymer science, and achievement of this can be very useful in the development of new polymeric materials. In this talk the connection between dimensions of polyolefin chains and some of their most fundamental properties, such as the degree of entanglement and miscibility, are described. The experimental and theoretical justifications of these relations are outlined in the first sections, and then the ways these can be used to predict the performance of polyolefins are demonstrated. I then suggest other areas where such connections may be found in the future.
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