1. Editorial

   Pages: 85 - 86

2. Low molecular weight oligo-β-hydroxybutyric acids and 3-hydroxy-N-phenethyl-butyramide – new products from microorganisms

   • Rajendra P. Maskey
   • Ines Kock
   • Hartmut Laatsch

   Original articles Pages: 87 - 93

3. Novel hole-transporting carbazole main chain oligomer and its model glass-forming compound

   • Jolita Ostrauskaite
   • Vygintas Jankauskas
   • Juozas V. Grazulevicius

   Original article Pages: 95 - 101

4. Diacetylene-containing polymers. XIII. Poly(hexa-2,4-diynylene-l,6-dioxydicinnamates) containing an azo dye, Disperse Red 19

   • Hirohiko Miura
   • Takeshi Ogawa

   Original article Pages: 103 - 110

5. Preparation and characterization of a series of polyamides with long alkylene segments: Nylons 12 20, 10 20,s 20,6 20, 4 20 and 2 20

   • Yue Huang
   • Weihua Li
   • Deyue Yan

   Original article Pages: 111 - 118

6. New results on the polymerisation of the itaconic acid in aqueous medium

   • Cristóbal Lárez V
   • Freddy Canelón
   • Issa Katime

   Original article Pages: 119 - 126

7. Synthesis and ionic conductivity of comb-like polysiloxanes with Pendant oligo(oxyethy1ene) side chains and quaternary ammoniurn groups

   • Junjie Kang
   • Shibi Fang

   Original article Pages: 127 - 134

8. The synthesis and characterisation of poly( 14-cyclopentenylene-5,6-ethylidene-2,3-disodium dicarboxy1ate)s and Pendant functional group isomerisation

   • W.J. Feast
   • J.L. Hesselink (née Megson)
   • S. P. Rannard

   Original article Pages: 135 - 142

9. Synthesis and characterization of (star po1ystyrene)-block- (linear polydimethylsi1oxane)-block-(star polystyrene) triblock copolymers

   • Tianzi Huang
   • Daniel M. Knauss

   Original article Pages: 143 - 150

10. A novel polyethylene/palygorskite nanocomposite prepared via in-situ coordinated polymerization

    • Zhongjie Du
    • Wei Zhang
    • Hangquan Li

    Original article Pages: 151 - 158

11. Effect of pressure on the PVT behaviour of iPP as revealed by dilatometric measurements

    • V. La Carrubba
    • F. Briatico-Vangosa
    • S. Piccarolo

    Original article Pages: 159 - 164

12. Gas permeability coefficients of isomeric aromatic Polyamides obtained from 4,4'-(9-fluorenylidene) diamine and aromatic diacid chlorides

    • Ramón López-Nava
    • Flavio S. Vázquez-Moreno
    • Manuel Aguilar-Vega

    Original article Pages: 165 - 172

13. Control of the photorefractive effect using a low T_g sol-gel glass

    • Dong Hoon Choi
    • Woongi Jun
    • Jae Hong Kim

    Original article Pages: 173 - 180

14. Temperature dependent swelling behavior of ionic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) gels in PEG solutions

    • Demet Melekaslan
    • Oguz Okay

    Original article Pages: 181 - 188

15. Multiple crystalline morphologies of N-Alkyl chitosan solution cast films

    • Yanming Dong
    • Kensuke Sakurai
    • Yukie Kondo

    Original article Pages: 189 - 195

16. Study of the amorphous phase in semicrystalline poly(ethy1ene terephthalate) via dynamic mechanical thermal analysis

    • Wei Dong
    • Jun Zhao
    • Qingrong Fan

    Original article Pages: 197 - 203

17. Erratum: Polymer Bulletin 48 (2002) 3,283–290 DO1 10.1007/s00289-002-0036-9

    Pages: 205 - 206

18. 5^th IPF Colloquium of the Institute of Polymer Research Dresden¶‘Theory and Experiment’

    Announcement Pages: 207 - 208