Description:Content: Solvent-free polymerizations and processes : recent trends in the minimization of conventional organic solvents / Timothy E. Long and Michael O. Hunt -- Synthesis of liquid crystalline multiblock copolymers / Doris Pospiech, Liane Häussier, Brigitte Voit, Frank Böhme, and Hans R. Kricheldorf -- Polybutylene terephthalate modified with diamide segments / R.J. Gaymans and A.C.M. van Bennekom -- The preparation and melt behavior of oligomeric bisphenol-A polycarbonates / Joseph A. King, Jr. -- Solvent-free stable free radical polymerization : understanding and applications / Peter G. Odell, Nancy A. Listigovers, Marion H. Quinlan, and Michael K. Georges -- Bulk atom transfer radical polymerization / Krzysztof Matyjaszewski -- Bulk free radical copolymerization of allylic alcohol with acrylate and styrene comonomers / Shao-Hua Guo -- A versatile synthesis of block and graft copolymers by bulk 'living' free radical procedures / Craig J. Hawker, James L. Hedrick, Eva Malmström, Mikael Trollsås, Udo M. Stehling, and Robert M. Waymouth -- Solvent-free synthesis by free-radical frontal polymerization / John A. Pojman, Dionne Fortenberry, Lydia Lee Lewis, Chris Simmons, and Victor Ilyashenko -- Chain growth polymerizations in liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide / Murat A. Quadir and Joseph M. DeSimone -- Generation of microcellular biodegradable polymers using supercritical carbon dioxide / D. Sparacio and E.J. Beckman -- Polysulfone oligomers with thermosetting end-groups and their curing behavior under solvent-free conditions / Rumiko Hayase and Tetsuo Okuyama -- A new route for solid-state cross-linking in miscible polymer blends and organic-inorganic polymeric hybrids / Eli M. Pearce, T.K. Kwei, and Shaoxiang Lu -- Modeling and experimental investigation of light intensity and initiator effects on solvent-free photopolymerizations / Michael D. Goodner and Christopher N. Bowman -- Gas phase and cluster studies of the early stages of cationic polymerization and the reactions with metal cations / Y.B. Pithawalla and M. Samy El-Shall -- Solvent-free functionalization of polypropylene by reactive extrusion with acidic peroxides / S.C. Manning and R.B. Moore -- Layer-by-layer polycondensation of nylon-66 with normal molecular orientation by alternating vapor deposition polymerization / Huili Shao and Norimasa Okui.