POLYMERS Vol.64 No.6
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COVER STORY
Why Not Re-Consider About Fracture of Polymeric Materials
Advanced functionalized polymeric materials are increasingly being developed and they are now being employed extensively in engineering applications. These advance polymer materials are fascinating at many levels but their increased functionality must not be at the cost of reduced mechanical strength or chemical and thermal stability. A large wealth of applied fracture mechanics studies were undertaken between 1953 and 2000, but in more recent times there have not been many significant breakthroughs reported in the literature. This position is changing now though with the advent of new methods for toughening elastomer materials for example by exploiting sliding-ring functionality or double network gels. In this edition, fracture mechanics in polymeric materials is reviewed and updated activities will be introduced.
Editors: TSUNODA, SAKAI, SHISHIDO, and FURUKAWA
Digest for English Readers
336

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ
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Commentary
“Griffith” is a Father of Fracture Ikuo NARISAWA
340

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews
Fracture of Plastics Takashi KURIYAMA
341
Elastic-Viscous Transition in Tear Fracture of Rubbers Yoshihide FUKAHORI
344
What are Characteristics of Gel Fracture Yoshimi TANAKA, Takahiro MATSUDA
347
Dynamics of Adhesion and Debonding Tetsuo YAMAGUCHI
350

PolyMANGA
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COVER STORY: Topics and Products
Mechanical Properties of Self-Recovery Tough Gels with Permanent and Reversible Crosslinks Koichi MAYUMI, Tetsuharu NARITA, Costantino CRETON
354
Rubbers and Elastomers for High-pressure Hydrogen Seal Shin NISHIMURA
356

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account
Challenge for “Originality” Hironori IZAWA
358

Messages: “Work and Life”
Now We are Struggling for Child Rearing Tsuyoshi TAKAHASHI
359

Front-Line Polymer Science
Polyelectrolyte Brush and Specific Ion Effect Hideki MATSUOKA
360

From My Bookshelf Arimitsu USUKI / Kentaro TAKI
366

PolySCHOLA Tasuku NAKAJIMA
367

Messages from SPSJ
370
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