Table of Contents

An Historical Perspective (Une Perspective Historique).- Review Papers.- Focal Conics Domains in Smectics.- On Polymer Brushes and Blobology: An Introduction.- The Adhesion Between Elastomers.- Dynamics of Late Stage Phase Separation in Polymer Blends.- Research Papers.- 1. Polymer Physics.- Swelling and Uniaxial Extension of Polymer Gels as Seen by Small Angle Neutron Scattering.- Silica-Poly (dimethsiloxane) Mixtures: An NMR Approach to the Investigation of Chain Adsorption Statistics.- Liquid Crystalline Polymers in Nematic Solvents: Extension and Confinement.- The Revealing of Heterogeneities by Free Linear Chains in a Network.- Non-Debye Screening in Polyelectrolyte Solutions.- Entropy of Knots and Statistics of Entangled Random Walks.- Polymers in a Random Environment and Molecular Quasi-Species.- Wetting from Mixtures of Flexible Chains.- 2. Crystallography.- Twins in Diamond Films.- 3. Dynamics of Disordered Systems / Glasses.- The Crystallization of Amorphous AL: GE Thin Films.- Grain Boundary Motion During Anisotropic Grain Growth.- Soft Atomic Potentials and Low-Frequency Raman Scattering in Glasses.- Dynamics of Interface Depinning in a Disordered Medium.- 4. Percolation, Diffusion and Fractons.- Hull of Percolation Clusters in Three Dimensions.- Dynamics of Diffusion and Invasion Fronts: On the Disconnection — Reconnection Exponents of Percolation Clusters.- Diffusion Reaction A+B ? C, with A and B Initially-Separated.- Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Aerogels and Porous Glasses.- Faraday Effect in the Multiple Scattering of Light: A Monte Carlo Simulation.- Fracton Dimensions for Elastic and Antiferromagnetic Percolating Networks.- Fractons in Computer and Laboratory Experiments.- 5. Surfactants and Liquid Crystals.- Some Remarks on the Elastic Propertiesof the Nematic and Smectic A Phases of Liquid Crystals.- Permeability of a Soap Film.- Vesicles of High Topological Genus.- Science and Society.- An Income-Distribution Demand-Shift Model of Inflation.- Neo-Darwinian Processes in the Evolution of Science and of Human Societies.

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