CHAPTER 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF POLYMER
1.1 What is Polymer?
1.2 Polymer ABC, Alloy, Blend and Composite
 
CHAPTER 2: FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMAL EXPANSION
2.1 Definition of Thermal Expansion
2.2 Mechanism of Thermal Expansion of Material in a solid, liquid and gas state
2.3 Mechanism of Thermal Expansion of Polymer
2.4 Phenomenon that occurs when two materials with different thermal expansions are combined
 
CHAPTER 3: THERMAL EXPANSION THEORY OF CRYSTAL AXIS IN CRYSTAL LATTICE OF CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS:
3.1 Linear Chain Model
3.2 Self-Consistent Harmonic Approximation
3.3 String-in-Medium Model
 
CHAPTER 4 MEASUREMENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION
4.1 Measurement of Bulk Coefficient of Volume Thermal Expansion (CVTE)
4.2 Measurement of Bulk Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion (CLTE) by Thermo-mechanical Analyzer (TMA):
4.3 Emerging Technologies of Evaluation of Thermal Expansion
 
CHAPTER 5 COMPOSITE THEORY OF THERMAL EXPANSION
5.1 General Review of Theories of Thermal Expansion of Polymer Composites
5.2 Thermal Expansion Theory by Schapery
5.3 Wang-Kwei Model for Polymer Composites containing Spherical Inclusions
5.4 Spherical Shell for Polymer Blends with Layered Shells by Model by Manabe and Takayanagi
5.5 Chow model for the Linear and Volume Thermal Expansion Coefficients of the Polymer Composite with Ellipsoidal Inclusions:
5.6 Mori-Tanaka Theory to Accommodate Polymer Composites with Versatile Shapes of Fillers:
 
CHAPTER 6 REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES OF THERMAL EXPANSION
6.1 Reduction of Thermal Expansion by Fillers
6.2 Reduction of Thermal Expansion by Introducing Rigid Structure into Polymer Backbone
6.3 Reduction of Thermal Expansion by Oriented Molecules
6.4 Reduction of Thermal Expansion by Elastomers