Advances in New Materials

Perspectives on the Contributions of Michael Szwarc to Polymer Science.- Perspectives on the Contributions of Michael Szwarc to Polymer Science.- High Performance Polymers.- Preparation and Polymerization of Macrocyclic Oligomers.- Mechanism for the Amine-Catalyzed Formation of Polycarbonate Cyclics.- Poly(Enaminonitriles): New Materials with Interesting Properties.- Perfectly Alternating Segmented Polyimide Siloxane Copolymers.- High Molecular Weight Aromatic Biphenylene Polymers by Nickel Coupling of Aryl Dichlorides.- Cellulose-Polymer Composites with Improved Properties.- Synthesis of Polyimides Utilizing the Diels-Alder Reaction.- Poly(Imidazoleamides): A New Class of Heteroaromatic Polyamides.- Polymers For Electronic Applications.- Cure Kinetics of Epoxy Cresol Novolac Encapsulant for Microelectronics Packaging.- A Theoretical Treatment of the Structural Aspects of the Topochemical Polymerization of Diacetylenes.- Creating Conducting Materials Through Solution Blending of Conducting Polymers with Commercial Polymers.- Preparation of Substituted Polyphenylenes and Catalyzed Aromatization of Polycyclohexadienediol Derivatives.- Radical Cation Salts of Simple Aromatics - A Family of Organic Metals.- Approaches to Orthogonally Fused Conducting Polymers for Molecular Electronics.- Polypyrroles from Isoporous Alumina Membranes.- Synthesis of Conducting Composite Polymer Beads.- Transparent Electrically Conductive Composites by In-Situ Crystallization of (TSeT)2Cl in a polymer Matrix.- Polymer Electrolytes and Hydrogels from Polyethylene Glycols Cross-Linked with a Hydrophobic Polyisocyanate.- Nonlinear Optics.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of New Dye Doped Photocrosslinkable Polymers.- Molecular Engineering of Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers.- NLO Device Structures from Polydiacetylenes Gregory L.Baker.- Recent Synthetic Developments in Mainchain Chromophoric Nonlinear Optical Polymers.- New Ferrocene Complexes and Polymers for Nonlinear Optical Applications.- Nonlinear Optical Thin Films of Platinum Poly-ynes.- Design of New Type of Liquid Crystalline Polymers Through Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding.- Polymers From Biological Sources.- Production of Non-Natural and Functional Poly-?-Hydroxyalkanoates by Bacteria.- Genetic Engineering of Molecular and Supramolecular Structure in Polymers.- New Polymer Synthesis.- Functionalized Polyolefins via Copolymerization of Borane Monomers in Ziegler-Natta Process.- Derivatives of Poly(Alkyl/Arylphosphazenes).- Crosslinking of PMMA Elastomer Block Copolymers Through PMMA Stereocomplexes.- Synthesis and Characterization of Macrocyclic Poly(2-vinyl pyridine) and the Effect of a Rigid Coupling Agent on its properties.- Topochemically Controlled Polymerization of a Smectic Liquid Crystalline Diacrylate Monomer.