Description:Content: PREFACE ; H. W. SPIESS - AN APPRECIATION ; OVERVIEWS ; 1. INNOVATIVE NMR STRATEGIES FOR COMPLEX MACROMOLECULES ; H. N. CHENG, TETSUO ASAKURA, AND ALAN D. ENGLISH ; 2. OVERVIEW OF NMR OF BULK POLYMERS ; HANS WOLFGANG SPIESS ; 3. TUTORIAL ON SOLUTION NMR OF POLYMERS ; PETER L. RINALDI ; SOLID STATE POLYMER STRUCTURE ; 4. NEW INSIGHTS INTO AMORPHOUS MACROMOLECULES AND THEIR MIXTURES FROM ADVANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE EXPERIMENTS ; JEFFERY L. WHITE, MARCIN WACHOWICZ, LANCE GILL, JOSHUA DAMRON, AND JUSTYNA WOLAK-DINSMORE ; 5. SOLID-STATE NMR INVESTIGATIONS OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE PVIBE/?-PL AND PK/PA BLENDS: CRYSTALLITE SIZE, TYPE, AND MORPHOLOGY RELATED TO PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ; ATSUSHI ASANO ; 6. INVESTIGATION OF FILLER-MATRIX INTERACTIONS AND CONFINEMENT EFFECT IN POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES ; K. P. PRAMODA, K. Y. MYA, T. T. LIN, J. WANG, AND C. B. HE ; 7. 1H MAS NMR SPECTROSCOPY OF POLYETHYLENE ACRYLIC ACID COPOLYMERS AND IONOMERS ; TODD M. ALAM, JANELLE E. JENKINS, MICHELLE E. SEITZ, C. FRANCISCO BUITRAGO, KAREN I. WINEY, KATHLEEN L. OPPER, TRAVIS W. BAUGHMAN, AND KENNETH B. WAGENER ; 8. A SOLID-STATE NMR STUDY OF BORIC ACID DOPED IN POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) ; KAZUHIKO YAMADA ; POLYMER MOTION AND DIFFUSION ; 9. NMR CHARACTERIZATION OF CANOPY DYNAMICS IN NANOSCALE IONIC MATERIALS ; MICHAEL L. JESPERSEN, PETER A. MIRAU, ERNST VON MEERWALL, RICHARD A. VAIA, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, NIKHIL J. FERNANDES, AND EMMANUEL P. GIANNELIS ; 10. DYNAMICS OF DISORDERED STRUCTURE OF ?-CONJUGATED POLYMERS INVESTIGATED BY SOLID-STATE NMR ; N. ASAKAWA, Y. INOUE, T. YAMAMOTO, R. SHIMIZU, M. TANSHO, AND K. YAZAWA ; 11. MOLECULAR MOBILITY AND PHASE COMPOSITION IN POLYOLEFINS: FROM FUNDAMENTAL TO APPLIED RESEARCH ; V. M. LITVINOV ; 12. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF THE CRYSTALLINE REGION OF ISOTACTIC-POLYOLEFINS CHARACTERIZED BY SOLID-STATE NMR ; TOSHIKAZU MIYOSHI ; 13. CHAIN MOBILITY IN CROSSLINKED EPDM RUBBERS. COMPARISON OF 1H NMR T2 RELAXOMETRY AND DOUBLE-QUANTUM 1H NMR ; PIETER C. M. M. MAGUSIN, RAMONA A. ORZA, VICTOR M. LITVINOV, MARTIN VAN DUIN, AND KAY SAALWACHTER ; 14. DIFFUSION NMR OF POLYMERS IN BICELLES ; PETER M. MACDONALD ; 15. UNDERSTANDING ANISOTROPY, TRANSPORT, AND ION ASSOCIATIONS INSIDE IONIC POLYMERS ; JIANBO HOU, JING LI, KYLE G. WILMSMEYER, ZHIYANG ZHANG, AND LOUIS A. MADSEN ; 16. 13C-NMR OBSERVED CONFORMATIONS AND MOTIONS OF NEAT LIQUID AND CRYSTALLINE N-HEXATRIACONTANE AND AS A GUEST IN THE NARROW CHANNELS OF ITS INCLUSION COMPOUND FORMED WITH ?-CYCLODEXTRIN ; M. A. HUNT, S. VILLAR-RODIL, M. A. GOMEZ-FATOU, I. D. SHIN, F. C. SCHILLING, AND A. E. TONELLI ; BIOPOLYMERS AND BIOCHEMISTRY ; 17. NMR CHARACTERIZATION AND PRODUCT DESIGN OF NOVEL SILK-BASED BIOMATERIALS ; AYA NAGANO, YU SUZUKI, YASUMOTO NAKAZAWA, J. T. GERIG, AND TETSUO ASAKURA ; 18. THE INTERACTION OF A?(1-40) PEPTIDE WITH LIPID BILAYERS AND GANGLIOSIDE AS STUDIED BY MULTINUCLEAR SOLID-STATE NMR ; YASUMOTO NAKAZAWA, YU SUZUKI, HAZIME SAITO, AND TETSUO ASAKURA ; 19. CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROBIAL POLY(?-L-LYSINE) AND ITS DERIVATIVES BY SOLID-STATE NMR ; SHIRO MAEDA, CHIZURU SASAKI, AND KO-KI KUNIMOTO ; 20. NMR, NIR, AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF CARBOHYDRATE?PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND GLYCOPROTEINS ; I. C. BAIANU AND V. PRISECARU ; NMR IN SOLUTION AND IN THE MELT ; 21. ADVANCED SOLUTION 2D-NMR OF FLUOROPOLYMERS ; PETER L. RINALDI, SILAPONG BAIAGERN, PETER FOX, JON L. HOWELL, LINLIN LI, XIAOHONG LI, DONALD F. LYONS, ELIZABETH F. MCCORD, SANGRAMA K. SAHOO, ERIC B. TWUM, AND FAITH J. WYZGOSKI ; 22. STATISTICAL MODELS AND NMR ANALYSIS OF POLYMER MICROSTRUCTURE ; H. N. CHENG AND MASSOUD J. MIRI ; 23. COMPOSITION AND PHASE MORPHOLOGY OF HARD/SOFT ACRYLIC LATEX POLYMERS: NMR AND AFM STUDY ; KEBEDE BESHAH AND ROBERT F. ANTRIM ; 24. APPLICATION OF MELT-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY FOR POLYOLEFIN CHARACTERIZATION IN INDUSTRY ; GERHARD HUBNER, ISA FONSECA, AND MATTHEW PARKINSON ; 25. NMR RESCALING REVISITED ; M. E. RIES, A. BANSAL, AND M. G. BRERETON ; 26. AN NMR INVESTIGATION OF A POLYMER MELT UNDER SHEAR ; UTE BOHME AND ULRICH SCHELER ; NMR IMAGING ; 27. NMR IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE STUDY OF PHARMACEUTICAL TABLETS ; H. THERIEN-AUBIN, Y. J. WANG, AND X. X. ZHU ; 28. EFFECT OF MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF 19F NMR IMAGING AGENTS ; HUI PENG, KRISTOFER THURECHT, STEVEN HSU, IDRISS BLAKEY, OLIVER SQUIRES, NYOMAN KURNIAWAN, STEPHEN ROSE, AND ANDREW K WHITTAKER ; SPECIAL NMR TECHNIQUES ; 29. LATEX STATE AND SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY OF ELASTOMERS ; SEIICHI KAWAHARA ; 30. PROTON MAS NMR ANALYSIS OF PHENYL SILANE FUNCTIONALIZED SILICA NANOPARTICLES ; KHALID A. M. THAKUR, MARK MCCORMICK, WENDY L. THOMPSON, CHUNTAO CAO, AND WILLIAM J. SCHULTZ ; 31. DEPENDENCE OF THE AMOUNT OF XE SORPTION ON THE 129XE NMR CHEMICAL SHIFT IN GLASSY POLYMERS ; H. YOSHIMIZU ; EPILOGUE: AN ADDICTION TO NMR ; EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX