ABSTRACT
We show which and how certain behaviors and properties of liquid polymers and their solutions can be connected to and explained in terms of their single chain microstructures and resultant conformational preferences. These include, for example, the intrinsic viscosities of their dilute solutions and molecular weights at which their melts become entangled. In addition, we point out behaviors and properties dominated by interactions between polymer chains that are not amenable to our Inside polymer chain microstructure Outside polymer material property approach. Polymer dynamics and rheology are prime examples of such currently intractable polymer behaviors.
