Electrical Properties of Polymers

Electrical Properties of Polymers Evaristo Riande and Ricardo Diaz-Calleja, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 630 pp., $199.95,2004

This book offers a systematic and cohesive study of the electrical properties of polymers. It is divided into three sections: Part I. Physical Fundamentals of Dielectrics (i.e., static dipoles and quasi-static dipoles); Part II. Structure Dependence of Equilibrium and Dynamic Dielectric Properties of Polymers (i.e., mean-square dipole moments of molecular chains); and Part III: Special Polymers (i.e., liquid crystals, nonlinear optical polymers, conducting polymers, and piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials). The text features end-of-chapter problems and useful appendices to aid in the understanding of theoretical and computational notions. Copyright American Institute of Chemical Engineers Aug 2005