NEW TRENDS IN PHYSICS AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF POLYMERS

Edited by

Lieng-Huang Lee Xerox Corporation Webster, New York

PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON

CONTENTS

PART ONE: ADSORPTION OF COLLOIDS AND POLYMERS

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes - 1988 Recipient of the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry 5

P. PINCUS

Award Address

Dynamics of Adsorbed Polymers 9

P.G. de GENNES

Equilibrium Structure of the Fluid Interface 19

F.P. BUFF AND M. ROBERT

Displacement of Homopolymer From a Surface by a Block Copolymer 41

HIROSHI WATANABE, SANJAY PATEL AND MATTHEW TIRRELL

The Modification of Surface Forces by Grafted Polymer Chains 47

HILLARY J. TAUNTON, CHRIS TOPRAKCIOGLÜ, JACOB KLEIN AND LEWIS J. FETTERS

Persistence Length in Microemulsion Systems 57

0. ABILLON, B.P. BINKS, D. LANGEVIN, J. MEUNIER AND R. OBER

Polymer Adsorption at The Solid-Liquid Interface: The Interfacial

Concentration Profile 63

1. CAUCHETEUX, H. HERVET, F. RONDELEZ, L. AUVRAY AND J.P. COTTON

Chiral Discrimination in Monolayer Packing of Hexadecanol-thiophosphoryl-2-phenylglycinol with Two Chiral Centers in

the Polar Head-Group 81

MAYA DVOLAITZKY AND MARIE A. GUEDEAU BOUDEVILLE

Discussion 89

PART TWO: ADHESION, FRACTAL AND WETTING OF POLYMERS

New Perspectives on Polymer Adhesion Mechanisms 95

LIENG-HUANG LEE

Dynamics and Fractal Structure of Polymer Interfaces 129

R.P. WOOL

Size Exclusion Chromatography and Surface Effects in Porous Fractals 137

F. BROCHARD-WYART, M. Le MAIRE, A. GHAZI AND M. MARTIN

Dry Spreading of Polymer Liquids on Solid Surfaces: Role of Long Range Forces, Preeursor Film Profiles and Specific Polymerie Effects 159

L. LEGER, A.M. GUINET-PICARD, H. HERVET, D. AUSSERRE AND M. ERMAN

Wettlng Phenomena 171

A.M. CAZABAT, F. HESLOT AND P. LEVINSON

Applications of Hard-Soft Acid-Base (HSAB) Principle to Solid

Adhesion and Surface Interactions Between Metals and Polymers 185

LIENG-HUANG LEE

Discussion 201

PART THREE: DYNAMICS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER SOLUTIONS

Diffusion of Polymer in Binary and Ternary Semidilute Solutions 207

ZHULUN WANG, BENJAMIN CHU, QINWEI WANG AND LEWIS FETTERS

The Scaling Laws in Ternary Systems: Polymer-Polymer-Good Solvent

An Experimental Study 229

L. OULD KADDOUR AND CL. STRAZIELLE

Excimer Studies of Polymer Solutions Over the Entire Concentration

Range 239

RENYUAN QIAN

Polymers at Interfaces: A Study by Neutron Reflection 255

X. SUN, B. FARNOUX, G. JANNINK AND J. des CLOIZEAUX

Theory of Dynamic Screening in Macromolecular Solutions 269

ANDRZEJ R. ALTENBERGER, JOHN S. DAHLER AND MATTHEW TIRRELL

Tracer Diffusion in Polymer-like Networks 285

R. MESSAGER, D. CHATENAY, W. URBACH AND D. LANGEVIN

Dynamical Properties of Semidilute Polymer Solutions at the Theta

Temperature 293

M. ADAM AND M. DELSANTI

Discussion 307

PART FOUR: DIFFUSION AND INTERDIFFUSION OF POLYMERS

Self-consistent Fields and Critical Exponents for Polymers 311

ISAAC C. SANCHEZ

Diffusion in Block Copolymers and Isotopic Polymer Mixtures 319

PETER F. GREEN

Mutual Diffusion in the Miscible Polymer Blend: Polystyrene:

Poly(xylenyl ether) 345

R.J. C0MP0ST0, E.J. KRAMER AND DWAIN M. WHITE

Self-diffusion of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Chains 355

LEONCIO GARRIDO, JEROME L. ACKERMAN AND JAMES E. MARK

Chain Segment Ordering in Strained Rubbers 367

B. DELOCHE, P. SOTTA AND J. HERZ

Viscoelasticity and Self-diffusion in Miscible Heteropolymer Blends 375

CHRISTOS TSENOGLOU

Discussion 385 PART FIVE: ENTANGLEMENT AND REPTATION OF POLYMER MELTS

AND NETWORKS

Molecular Weight Dependence of the Viscosity of a Homogeneous 389 Polymer Melt

A. SILBERBERG

Dynamics of Entangled Polymers: Reptation 397

L. LEGER, H. HERVET, M.F. HARMONIER AND J.L. VIOVY

The Entanglement Concept in Polymer Physics Revisited 419

TOM A. KAVASSALIS AND JAAN NOOLANDI

Repton Model of Entangled Polymers 455

MICHAEL RUBINSTEIN

On the Effect of Positional Order on the Scattering by Copolymers and Networks with Labeled Oosslinks 471

HENRI C. BENOtT, CLAUDE PICOT AND SONJA KRAUSE

Calculation of Elastic Small-Angle Neutron Scattering frotn Labeled 483 Gels

SONJA KRAUSE, HENRI C. BENOIT AND CLAUDE PICOT

Discussion 497

PART SIX: PHASE TRANSITIONS AND GEL ELECTROPHORESIS

Phase Transitions in Polymer Solutions 503

J.F. JOANNY AND L. LEIBLER

Percolation Type Growth Process of Clusters Near the Gelation

Threshold 531

M. ADAM, M. DELSANTI, J.P. MUNCH AND D. DURAND

The Biased Reptation Model of DNA Gel Electrophoresis 547

GARY W. SLATER AND JAAN NOOLANDI

FINAL REMARKS 601

P.G. de GENNES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Conformation of a Polymer in Liquid Crystal Polymer 603

L. NOIREZ, J.P. COTTON, P. KELLER, M. LAMBERT, F. MOUSSA, G. PEPY AND F. HARDOUIN

Discussion 605

APPENDIX

List of Publications (1956-1988) by P.G. de Gennes 607

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 625

AUTHOR INDEX 631

SUBJECT INDEX 643