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REFEREED PROCEEDINGS AND CHAPTER REVIEWS

Thomas, E.L., Developments in Electron Microscopy and Analysis, ed. J.A. Venables, Academic Press, New York  (1975), “Electron Microscopy of Radiation Sensitive Polyethylene Crystals.”

Chang, A.L. and Thomas, E.L., “Morphological Studies of PCP/MDI/BDO Based Segmented Polyurethanes,” Adv. in Chem., Symposia on Multiphase Polymers, 176, 31-52 (1979).

Thomas, E.L., “Electron Microscopic Studies of Amorphous and Phase Separated Polymers,”China-U.S. Symposium on Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Science Press, Beijing, China, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 293-324 (1981).

Roche, E.J., Takahashi, T. and Thomas, E.L., “Structure of High Modulus Fibers of Poly-p-phenylene Benzobisthiazole,” Am. Chem. Soc. Symposium, Fiber Diffraction Methods 141, 303-313 (1980).

Allen, S.R., Filippov, A.G., Farris, R.J. and Thomas, E.L., “Structure-Property Relations in Poly(p-phenylene benzobisthiazole) Fibers,” The Strength and Stiffness of Polymers, ed. by A.E. Zachariades and R.S. Porter, Dekker, New York, 357-380 (1983).

Thomas, E.L., “Transmission Electron Microscopy of Polymers,” The Structure of Crystalline Polymers, ed. by I.H. Hall, Applied Science, Essex, United Kingdom, 79-124  (1984).

Thomas, E.L., “Electron Microscopy,”The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Vol. 5, John Wiley, New York, 644-687 (1986).

Cohen, Y., Frost, H.H. and Thomas, E.L., “Structure Formation and Phase Transformations in Solutions of a Rigid Polymer,” Reversible Polymeric Gels and Related Systems, ACS Symposium Series 350, ed. P.S. Russo, Washington, D.C., 181-198 (1987).

Martin, D.C. and Thomas, E.L., “Morphology of Rigid -Rod Polymer Fibers:  An Overview,” Materials Research Society Proceedings 134, 415-429 (1989).

Hwang, C.R., Malone, M.F., Farris, R.J., Martin, D.C. and Thomas, E.L., “In-Situ Network Composite Fibers of PBZT/Nylon,” Materials Research Society Proceedings 134, 547-552 (1989).

Cohen, Y., Talmon, Y. and Thomas, E.L., “On the Structure of Poly(y-benzyl-L-Glutamate) (PBLG) Gels,” Physical Networks, W. Burchard and S.-B. Ross-Murphy, eds., Elsevier Applied Science, 147-158 (1990).

Winey, K.I. and Thomas, E.L., “The Ordered Bicontinuous Double Diamond Structure in Binary Blends of Diblock Copolymer and Homopolymer,” Materials Research Society Proceedings 171, 255-260 (1990).

Thomas, E.L. and Gido, S.P., “Periodic Area Minimization Surfaces in Microstructural Science,” Materials Research Society Proceedings 175, 315-324 (1990).

Kovar, R.F., Lusignea, R.W., Haghighat, R.R., Pantano, C. and Thomas, E.L., “High Compressive Strength Ordered Polymer Fibers and Films Via Sol Gel Microcomposite Processing,” Materials Research Society Proceedings 175, 193-206 (1990).

Martin, D.C., Schaffer, K.R. and Thomas, E.L., “Maximum Entropy Reconstruction of Low Dose, High Resolution Electron Microscope Images,” Electron Crystallography of Organic Molecules, J. R. Fryer and D. L. Dorset, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 129-145 (1990).

Hudson, S.D. and Thomas, E.L., “Disclinations and Inversion Walls in Nematic LCPs,” Chemtracts 2, 73-93 (1991).

Simmons, S., Wiegland, C.E., Albalak, R.J., Armstrong, R.C. and Thomas, E.L., “Thermoplastic Processing of Starch:  Melt Spinning of Starch-Based Fibers,”Fundamentals of Biodegradabe Materials and Packaging, ed. D. Kaplan, E. Thomas and C. Ching, Technomic Publishing Co, Inc., 171-207 (1993).

Fetters, L.J. and Thomas, E.L., “Model Polymers for Materials Science,” Structure and Properties of Polymers, ed. E.L. Thomas and E. J. Kramer, VCH Verlag, Weinheim, Germany, 12, 1-31 (1993).

Schwark, D.W. and Thomas, E.L., “Characterization of the Morphology of Polymer Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films by Microscopy Techniques,” Practical Guides For The Surface, Interfacial and Micro Analysis of Materials 5, Ch. 4 Characterization of Polymers, ed. R. Saraf, N. Chou, S. Kowalczyk and H.-M. Tong, 92-120 (1994)

O’Rourke, M.J. and Thomas, E.L., “Morphology and Dynamic Interaction of Defects in Polymer Liquid Crystals,” Bulletin of the Materials Research Society 20, 29-36 (1995).

Winey, K.I., Fetters, L.J. and Thomas, E.L., “Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Model Polymers,” Encyclopedia of Applied Physics20, 429-449 ed. G. Trigg, Weinheim, Germany:  VCH Publishers, (1997).

Osuji, C.O., Chen, J.T., Mao, G., Ober C.K., and Thomas, E.L., “Structure Development in Side Group Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymers,” Molecular Interactions and Time-Space Organization in Macromolecular Systems, Proceedings of the OUMS ’98, Osaka, Japan, 3-6 June, published by Springer, p. 9-28.

Bockstaller, M.R., Thomas, E.L., “Design Criteria for Block Copolymer-based Metallodielectric photonic Materials,” Proceedings of SPIE:  Nanocrystals and Organic and Hybrid Nanomaterials5122, 94-107, (2003).

Bockstaller, M.R., Thomas, E.L., “Nanostructures Derived from Phase Separated Polymers,” Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2641-2656, (2004).

Krikorian, V., Kang, Y., and Thomas, E.L., “Self-assembly and Morphology Diagrams for Solution and Bulk Materials: Experimental Aspects,” Macromolecular Engineering: Precise Synthesis, Materials Properties, Applications3, 1387-1430, (2007).