International Symposium on Advances in Polymer Characterization, University of Durham, UK, 13–17 July 1981
Foreword
        
        Development of polymer characterization from time-averaged to time-dependent properties
        
        Mass spectroscopy of synthetic polymers
        
        New methods for the characterisation of biopolymers
        
        High performance gel permeation chromatography of polymers
        
        Characterization of complex polymer systems by size exclusion chromatography - homopolymers with long chain branching and copolymers with composition drift
        
        Characterization of copolymers by TLC, GPC and other methods
        
        Ion beam methods for the surface characterization of polymers
        
        Structural information from degradation studies
        
        Polymer degradation by cross metathesis
        
        Pulse-induced critical scattering and the characterisation of polymer samples
        
        Advances in classical light scattering from polymer solutions
        
        Electro-optical methods for characterisation of polymers and biopolymers
        
        Effects of polydispersity, branching and chain stiffness on quasielastic light scattering
        
        Advances in ESCA applied to polymer characterization
        
        New data processing techniques in FT-IR spectroscopy
        
        Some recent applications of 13C NMR spectroscopy to the study of the ring-opening polymerization of cycloalkenes and related reactions initiated by metathesis catalysts
        
        Magic angle NMR studies of polymers
        
        15N-NMR spectroscopic characterization of copolyamides and polypeptides
        
        ESR studies of polymers in the bulk phase
        
        The application of radiothermoluminescence method to the analysis of polymers and polymer composites
        
        The structure and dynamics of macromolecules in solutions as studied by ESR and NMR techniques
        
        Structural analysis of optically active copolymers by CD
        
        The structure and intramolecular mobility of macromolecules in solution as studied by polarized luminescence
        
        Energy transfer, excimer, and exciplex emission as probes for polymer miscibility
        
        