Table of Contents

to Synthesis of Elastomers.- Structure and Properties of Tire Rubbers Prepared by Anionic Polymerization.- Polymer and Chain End Structure in Anionic Diene Polymerization.- Polyurethane Elastomers with Monodisperse Segments and Their Model Precursors: Synthesis and Properties.- Relationship Between Chemical Composition and Hysteresis in Polyurethane Elastomers.- Morphology and Properties of Segmented Polyurethane-Urea Copolymers Prepared via t-Alcohol “Chain Extension”.- Diene Triblock Polymers with Styrene-Alpha-Methylstyrene Copolymer End Blocks.- Phase-Selective Curing of Poly(p-Methylstyrene-b-Butadiene-b-p-Methylstyrene).- A New Free Radical Approach to the Synthesis of Polydimethylsiloxane-Vinyl Monomer Block Polymers.- An Overview of the Chemical Modification of Natural Rubber.- Stabilisation of Rubbers in Aggressive Environments.- Polymers from Hydrogenated Polydienes Prepared with Neodymium Catalysts.- A New Crosslinking Reaction of Polyacrylic Elastomer by Onium Salt Catalyst.- Fatigue Resistance of Polybutadienes and Effect of Microstructure.- The Influence of Chemical Structure on the Strength of Rubber.- The Statistical Mechanics of Entangled Networks.- Calculation of Molecular Deformation and Orientation in Elastomers Using the Flory Network Model.- Rubber Elasticity, Entanglement Constraints and the Memory-Lattice Model.- Strain-Induced Crystallization in Rubbers.- Stress-Temperature Behavior of Stretched Trans-Polyisoprene Networks in the Crystallization Region.- Intramolecular Reaction and Network Properties.- The Hydrosilylation Cure of Polyisobutene.- The Elastic Behavior of Cis-1,4-Polybutadiene.- Optical Studies of Network Topology.- Theory of Segmental Orientation in Amorphous Polymer Networks and Comparison with Experimental Determination of Orientation in Polyisoprene Networks by Fluorescence Polarization.- Study of the Uniaxial Deformation of Rubber Network Chains by Small Angle Neutron Scattering.- Nonlinear Strain Measures of Rubber Networks and Polymer Melts.