Encyclopedia of Polymer Blends – Volume 1 – Fundamentals

Avraam I. Isayev is a Distinguished Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron. He is a native of Azerbaijan. He received M.Sc. degrees from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry in Chemical Engineering and the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering and Science from the Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Before joining the University of Akron in 1983 as an Associate Professor, he was a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, a Senior Research Fellow at Technion and a Research Associate at the Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He has edited 5 books, published 1 monograph and over 220 journal papers, many book chapters and encyclopedia articles. He has received numerous awards.

1 Molecular Simulation of Polymer Melts and Blends: Methods, Phase Behavior, Interfaces, and Surfaces 2 Thermodynamics of Flexible and Rigid Rod Polymer Blends 3 Amorphous Polymer Blends: Recent Developments 4 Phase Field Modeling on Polymer Crystallization and Phase Separation in Crystalline Polymer Blends 5 Miscibility Criterion in Polymer Blends and its Determination 6 Physical Aging of Polymer Blends 7 Nanoparticle/Polymer Blends: Theory and Modeling 8 Modeling the Self-Assembly of Ternary Blends that Encompass Photosensitive Chemical Reactions: Creating Defect-Free, Hierarchically Ordered Materials