1. The origin of stress-oscillation damping during startup and reversal of torsional shearing of nematics

   • Patrick T. Mather
   • Dale S. Pearson
   • Alexander M. Jamieson

   Original Contribution Pages: 485 - 497

2. Smectic rheology

   • Ralph H. Colby
   • Christopher K. Ober
   • Michele Laus

   Original Contribution Pages: 498 - 504

3. Effect of molecular architecture on the electrorheological behavior of liquid crystal polymers in nematic solvents

   • Yen-Ching Chiang
   • Alex M. Jamieson
   • Virgil Percec

   Original Contribution Pages: 505 - 512

4. Stress relaxation as a microstructural probe for immiscible polymer blends

   • Inge Vinckier
   • Jan Mewis
   • Paula Moldenaers

   Original Contribution Pages: 513 - 523

5. Nonlinear rheology of a concentrated spherical silica suspension:

   • Hiroshi Watanabe
   • Ming-Long Yao
   • Yotaro Morishima

   Original Contribution Pages: 524 - 533

6. Sticky dumbbells: from Hookean dumbbells to transient network

   • Jean-François Palierne

   Original Contribution Pages: 534 - 543

7. A constant-contour-length reptation model without independent alignment or consistent averaging approximations for chain retraction

   • Chi C. Hua
   • Jay D. Schieber
   • Naveen C. Andrews

   Original Contribution Pages: 544 - 554

8. Extensional rheology of concentrated poly(ethylene oxide) solutions

   • Vishal Gauri
   • Kurt W. Koelling

   Original Contribution Pages: 555 - 567

9. Rheological characterization of polyethylene terephthalate resins using a multimode Phan-Tien-Tanner constitutive relation

   • Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos
   • Glenn Heffner
   • Kostas Christodoulou

   Original Contribution Pages: 568 - 578

10. “Fracture” phenomena in shearing flow of viscous liquids

    • Lynden A. Archer
    • Dennis Ternet
    • Ronald G. Larson

    Short Communication Pages: 579 - 584

11. The “decaying springs” model for irreversibility in polymer melts

    • Hans Buggisch
    • Thomas König

    Short Communication Pages: 585 - 589