Download or read book Well-defined Polymeric Materials Incorporating Strong Hydrogen Bonding Groups written by Kathleen E. Feldman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of supramolecular chemistry has drastically grown in recent years, and in particular the development of new strongly hydrogen bonding groups has yielded numerous fundamental and practical advances allowing for the design of materials with unique combinations of macroscopic properties. For polymers whose properties typically are rather insensitive to temperature (other than e.g. when passing through the glass transition), the incorporation of hydrogen bonding groups into their structures can provide a new handle with which to tune their structural, mechanical, and thermal behavior. Limited fundamental studies exist, however, in which the combined effects of the polymer behavior and supramolecular interactions are characterized.