A polymer field theory is a statistical field theory describing the statistical behavior of a neutral or charged polymer system. It can be derived by transforming...

Osterwalder–Schrader axioms. Statistical field theories are widely used to describe systems in polymer physics or biophysics, such as polymer films, nanostructured block...

Cossee–Arlman mechanism, Polymer field theory, Hoffman Nucleation Theory, Flory–Stockmayer theory, and many others. The study of polymer thermodynamics helps improve...

original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2015. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Field theory (physics). Particle and Polymer Field Theories...

Reptation theory — Polymer field theory — Møller–Plesset perturbation theory — density functional theory — Frontier molecular orbital theory — Polyhedral...

Flory–Huggins solution theory is a lattice model of the thermodynamics of polymer solutions which takes account of the great dissimilarity in molecular...

primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. The field of polymer science includes researchers in multiple disciplines including chemistry...

structures rather than crystals. Polymers are studied in the fields of polymer science (which includes polymer chemistry and polymer physics), biophysics and...

many-particle system within the framework of a statistical field theory, like e.g. a polymer field theory. A convenient possibility is to use Monte Carlo (MC)...

Polymer physics is the field of physics that studies polymers, their fluctuations, mechanical properties, as well as the kinetics of reactions involving...

polymers as covalently bonded macromolecular structures was proposed in 1920 by Hermann Staudinger. One sub-field in the study of polymers is polymer...

known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel...

Conductive polymers or, more precisely, intrinsically conducting polymers (ICPs) are organic polymers that conduct electricity. Such compounds may have...

In polymer chemistry, radical polymerization (RP) is a method of polymerization by which a polymer forms by the successive addition of a radical to building...

In physics and probability theory, Mean-field theory (MFT) or Self-consistent field theory studies the behavior of high-dimensional random (stochastic)...

In polymer chemistry, emulsion polymerization is a type of radical polymerization that usually starts with an emulsion incorporating water, monomers, and...

Polymer degradation is the reduction in the physical properties of a polymer, such as strength, caused by changes in its chemical composition. Polymers...

solutions in velocity fields, theory of spinnability, problems of phenomenological rheology, and molecular-statistical theory of polymer networks. Takserman-Krozer...

properties. The materials science field has since broadened to include every class of materials, including ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, magnetic materials...

Scheutjens–Fleer theory is a lattice-based self-consistent field theory that is the basis for many computational analyses of polymer adsorption. Polymers at Interfaces...

that can be reversed, or switched, in an external electric field. Ferroelectric polymers, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), are used in acoustic...

lattice gauge theory and lattice field theory are areas of study. Lattice models are also used to simulate the structure and dynamics of polymers. A number...

The polymer elastic deformation term is independent of the solvent phase and has the same expression as a rubber, as derived in the Kuhn's theory of rubber...

solvents will mix evenly with a polymer in the manufacture of paints and coatings. A recent theory on the viscosity of polymer solutions gives a physical explanation...

the equilibrium swelling theory of Flory and Rehner. It describes the equilibrium swelling of a lightly crosslinked polymer in terms of crosslink density...

Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is an example of a reversible-deactivation radical polymerization. Like its counterpart, ATRA, or atom transfer...

In quantum field theory, partition functions are generating functionals for correlation functions, making them key objects of study in the path integral...

muscle behavior under an applied voltage or electric field. IPMCs are composed of an ionic polymer like Nafion or Flemion whose surfaces are chemically...

of polymerization-induced phase separation (PIPS) can be analyzed using classical polymer thermodynamics, most generally via the Flory-Huggins theory. This...

links one polymer chain to another. These links may take the form of covalent bonds or ionic bonds and the polymers can be either synthetic polymers or natural...