Selected Publications from 2001 | Laboratory of Advanced Polymers and Optimized Materials

Witold Brostow, Manus Donahue III, Cathryn E. Karashin, Ricardo Simoes, Graphical modeling and computer animation of tensile deformation in polymer liquid crystals (PLCs), Mater. Res. Innovat. 2001, 4, 75. [pdf file]

Witold Brostow, Janusz Walasek Orientations and phase transitions in liquid crystals consisting of short linear polymer chains, J. Chem. Phys. 2001, 5, 2466.

Witold Brostow, Instruction in Materials Science and Engineering: Modern Technology and the New Role of the Teacher, Mater. Sci. & Eng. A 2001, 302, 181. [pdf file]

P. Punchaipetch, V. Ambrogi, M. Giamberini, W. Brostow, C. Carfagna, N.A. D'Souza, Epoxy + liquid crystalline epoxy coreacted networks: I. Synthesis and curing kinetics, Polymer 2001, 42, 2067.

P. Punchaipetch, N.A. D'Souza, W. Brostow, A. E. Akinay, Jonathan Reed, Effects of Glass Fibers and Polypropylene/Glass Fiber Hybrid Fibers on the Kinetics and Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Composites, Polymer Composites 2001, 22, 32.

E. Rivera-Munoz, W. Brostow, R. Rodriguez, V. M. Castano, Hydroxyapatite spheres with controlled porosity for eye ball prosthesis: processing and characterization, Journal Mater. Sci. 2001, 305-311. [pdf file]

A. E. Akinay, W. Brostow, R. Maksimov, Prediction of Long-Term Service Performace of Polymeric Materials From Short-Term Tests: Creep and Prediction of the Stress Shift Factor of a Longitudinal Polymer Liquid Crystal, Polymer Engineering and Science 2001, 41, 977. [pdf file]

W. Brostow, K. Hibner, J. Walasek, The Influence of External Electric Field on Local Orientations and Phase Transitions in Polymer Liquid Crystals (PLCs), Macromol. Theory & Simul. 2001, 10, 304.

Z. H. Stachurski, Witold Brostow, Metamorphosis of Voronoi Polyhedra as a Definite Measure of the Elastic-to-Dissipative Atomic Displacement Transition, Polimery 2001, 46, 302.

Ali E. Akinay, Witold Brostow, Long-term Service Performance of Polymeric Materials from Short-term Tests: Prediction of the Stress Shift Factor from a Minimum of Data, Polymer 2001, 42, 4527. [pdf file]

Witold Brostow, Patrick E. Cassidy, Haley E. Hagg, Magdalena Jaklewicz, Pablo E. Montemartini, Fluoropolymer addition to an epoxy: phase inversion and tribological properties, Polymer 2001, 42, 7971. [pdf file]

Witold Brostow, Janusz Walasek, Theory of Thermotropic Polymer Liquid Crystals, J. Chem. Phys. 2001, 115, 8692.

Bryan Bilyeu, Witold Brostow, Kevin P. Menard, Determination of Volume Changes During Cure via Void Elimination and Shrinkage of an Epoxy Prepreg Using a Quartz Dilatometry Cell, Polimery 2001, 46, 799.

W.Brostow, J. Walasek, K. Hibner. The Influence of External Electric Field on Local Orientations and Phase Transitions in Polymer Liquid Crystals (PLCs). Macromolecular Theory and Simulations. Vol. 10, 304-313, 2001. [pdf file]

B. Bilyeu, W. Brostow & K.P. Menard, Epoxy thermosets and their applications. III. Kinetic equations and models, J. Mater. Ed. 2001, 23, 189. 2001. [pdf file]