Table of Contents

One: Adsorption of Colloids and Polymers.- Pierre-Gilles De Gennes - 1988 Recipient of the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry.- Dynamics of Adsorbed Polymers.- Equilibrium Structure of the Fluid Interface.- Displacement of Homopolymer From a Surface by a Block Copolymer.- The Modification of Surface Forces by Grafted Polymer Chains.- Persistence Length in Microemulsion Systems.- Polymer Adsorption at The Solid-Liquid Interface: The Interfacial Concentration Profile.- Chiral Discrimination in Monolayer Packing of Hexadecanol-thiophosphoryl-2-phenylglycinol with Two Chiral Centers in the Polar Head-Group.- Discussion.- Two: Adhesion, Fractal and Wetting Of Polymers.- New Perspectives on Polymer Adhesion Mechanisms.- Dynamics and Fractal Structure of Polymer Interfaces.- Size Exclusion Chromatography and Surface Effects in Porous Fractals.- Dry Spreading of Polymer Liquids on Solid Surfaces: Role of Long Range Forces, Precursor Film Profiles and Specific Polymeric Effects.- Wetting Phenomena.- Applications of Hard-Soft Acid-Base (HSAB) Principle to Solid Adhesion and Surface Interactions Between Metals and Polymers.- Discussion.- Three: Dynamics and Characterization of Polymer Solutions.- Diffusion of Polymer in Binary and Ternary Semidilute Solutions.- The Scaling Laws in Ternary Systems: Polymer-Polymer-Good Solvent An Experimental Study.- Excimer Studies of Polymer Solutions Over the Entire Concentration Range.- Polymers at Interfaces: A Study by Neutron Reflection.- Theory of Dynamic Screening in Macromolecular Solutions.- Tracer Diffusion in Polymer-like Networks.- Dynamical Properties of Semidilute Polymer Solutions at the Theta Temperature.- Discussion.- Four: Diffusion and Interdiffusion of Polymers.- Self-consistent Fields and Critical Exponents for Polymers.- Diffusion in Block Copolymers and Isotopic Polymer Mixtures.- Mutual Diffusion in the Miscible Polymer Blend: Polystyrene: Poly(xylenyl ether).- Self-diffusion of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Chains.- Chain Segment Ordering in Strained Rubbers.- Viscoelasticity and Self-diffusion in Miscible Heteropolymer Blends.- Discussion.- Five: Entanglement and Reptation of Polymer Melts and Networks.- Molecular Weight Dependence of the Viscosity of a Homogeneous Polymer Melt.- Dynamics of Entangled Polymers: Reptation.- The Entanglement Concept in Polymer Physics Revisited.- Repton Model of Entangled Polymers.- On the Effect of Positional Order on the Scattering by Copolymers and Networks with Labeled Crosslinks.- Calculation of Elastic Small-Angle Neutron Scattering from Labeled Gels.- Discussion.- Six: Phase Transitions and Gel Electrophoresis.- Phase Transitions in Polymer Solutions.- Percolation Type Growth Process of Clusters Near the Gelation Threshold.- The Biased Reptation Model of DNA Gel Electrophoresis.- Final Remarks.- Conformation of a Polymer in Liquid Crystal Polymer.- Discussion.- Append.- List of Publications (1956-1988) by P.G. de Gennes.- About the Contributors.- Author Index.