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Polymer Separation by Thermal Field-Flow Fractionation: High-Speed Power Programming ; Determination of Long-Chain Branching Distributions of Polyethylenes ; Automation of High-Temperature Gel Permeation Chromatography Through the Use of Laboratory Robotics ; Characterization of Synthetic Charge-Containing Polymers by Gel Electrophoresis ; Particle-Size Distribution by Zero-Angle Depolarized Light Scattering ; Latex Particle-Size Distribution from Turbidimetry Using a Combination of Regularization Techniques and General Cross Validation ; On-Line Particle-Size Determination During Latex Production Using Dynamic Light Scattering ; Pressure Bonding and Coherency of Plastic and Fragmentary Materials ; Glass Transition Temp as Parameter for Monitoring Isothermal Cure of Amine-Cured Epoxy System ; Characterization of Polymers by Thermal Stimulated Current and Relaxation Map Analysis Spectroscopy ; Thermally Stimulated Creep for the Study of Copolymers and Blends ; Analysis of Glass Transition Temperature, Conversion, and Viscosity During Epoxy Resin Curing ; Modeling Rheological and Dielectric Properties During Thermoset Cure ; In Situ Monitoring of Chemical and Rheological Changes During Cure in Resin-Transfer Molding ; Epoxy-Dinorbornene Spiro Orthocarbonate System by FTIR and Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy ; Rheokinetic Measurements of Step- and Chain-Addition Polymerizations ; Probing Polymer Structures by Photoacoustic FTIR Spectroscopy ; Characterization of Oriented Surfaces by Polarized Refracometry and Polarized ATR Techniques ; IR Studies on Grafting Reactions of Poly(vinyl alcohol) ; Development of FTIR Methodology for Evolved Gas Analysis ; Simultaneous Differential Scanning Calorimetry and IR Spectroscopy ; Characterization of Crystalline Polymers by Raman Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry ; Free-Volume-Dependent Fluorescence Probes of Physical Aging in Polymers ; Solid-State NMR, DSC, and X-ray Difraction Studies of Polymer Structures, Conformations, Dynamics, and Phase Transitions ; Recent Applications of Small-Angle Neutron Scattering to Multicomponent Polymer Systems ; Gels and Foams from Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene