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A scientific understanding of the behaviour of polymers under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure becomes inevitably of the utmost importance when the objective is to produce materials with well-defined final in-use properties and to prevent the damage of materials during on-duty conditions. The proper properties as well as the observed damages are related to the phase transitions together with intimate pattern organization of the materials. Thermodynamic and thermokinetic issues directly result from the thermodynamic independent variables as temperature, pressure and volume that can stay constant or be scanned as a function of time. Concomitantly, these variables can be coupled with a mechanical stress, the diffusion of a solvent, and/or a chemically reactive environment. A mechanical stress can be illustrated in a chemically inert environment by an elongation and/or a shear. Diffusion is typically described by the sorption of a solvent. A chemical environment is illustrated by the presence of a reactive environment as carbon dioxide or hydrogen for example. Challenging aspects are polymer pattern multi scale organizations, from the nanometric to the macrometric scale, and their importance regarding industrial and technological problems, as described in the state of the art in Part 2. New horizons and opportunities are at hands through pertinent approaches, including advanced ad hoc experimental techniques with improved modelling and simulation. Four striking illustrations, from the interactions between a solvent and a polymer to the growth patterns, are illustrated in Part 3.

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Thermodynamics and Thermokinetics to Model Phase Transitions of Polymers over Extended Temperature and Pressure Ranges Under Various Hydrostatic Fluids