Vol. 60, No. 1, 2018

Polymer Science, Series A

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Polymer Science, Series A ISSN 0965-545X.

Review

Plasticity Mechanism for Glassy Polymers: Computer Simulation Picture

E. F. Oleinik, M. A. Mazo, I. A. Strel’nikov, S. N. Rudnev and O. B. Salamatina p. 1 abstract

Structure and Properties

Influence of Humidity on the Complex Structure of PEO-Lithium Salt Polymer Electrolyte

Xiaocan Zhang, Lu Zhou, Yufeng Wang and Qiong Zhou p. 50 abstract

Polymer Gels

Effect of Halide Salts of Alkali Metals on Crystallinity of Poly(vinyl Alcohol) Cryogels

S. A. Zagorskaya and O. N. Tretinnikov p. 57 abstract

Natural Polymers

Effect of Component Nature on Liquid-Crystalline Transitions in Solutions of Cellulose Ethers

S. A. Vshivkov and E. V. Rusinova p. 65 abstract

Composites

Multiferroic: A Polymer Composite Based on Organometallic Cobalt Dimers with Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Effect

A. I. Aleksandrov, V. G. Shevchenko and I. A. Aleksandrov p. 74 abstract

Non-Isothermal Crystallization Behavior of β-Nucleated Isotactic Polypropylene/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composites with Different Melt Structures

Shaohua Chen, Yuansen Liu, Chenchen He, Xianze Yin, Luoxin Wang, Hua Wang, Changan Xu, Jian Kang and Yi Zhang p. 81 abstract

Preparation and Characterization of Polysulfone/Nanosilver-Doped Activated Carbon Nanocomposite

Jui-Ting Sun, Chyung-Chyung Wang, Hsun-Tsing Lee, Cheng-Lung Wu, Jia-Hao Gu and Maw-Cherng Suen p. 90 abstract

Investigation of Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries

P. Tamilselvi, M. Hema and S. Asath Bahadur p. 102 abstract

Theory and Simulation

Effect of the Number of Subnetworks on the Topology and Mechanical Properties of Interpenetrating Networks: Computer Simulation

A. A. Gavrilov p. 110 abstract