The Science of Polymer Molecules
The Science of Polymer Molecules
This book is an introduction to polymers that focuses on the synthesis, structure, and properties of the individual molecules that constitute polymeric materials. The authors approach the subject matter from a molecular basis and carefully develop principles from an elementary starting point. Their discussion includes an overview of polymer synthesis, an introduction to the concept and measurement of molecular weight, a detailed view of polymer kinetics and the three-dimensional architecture of polymers, and a statistical description of disorder.
- Materials science sells
- Much of modern technology dependent on polymers
- The book's general nature makes it suitable for students of chemistry, chemical engineering and materials science
Reviews & endorsements
"...a welcome addition to the scientific literature in general and to the Cambridge Solid State Science Series ...an exceptionally interesting and useful book..." Polymer News and Computational Polymer Science
"Recommended for academic libraries wherever polymer or materials science are taught." Choice
Product details
October 1996Paperback
9780521565080
432 pages
230 × 154 × 29 mm
0.644kg
147 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Polymerization: an overview
- 2. Molecular weight and molecular weight distribution
- 3. Molecular weight determination
- 4. Polymerization: kinetics and mechanism
- 5. Three-dimensional architecture: conformation and stereochemical configuration
- 6. The statistical behaviour of conformationally disordered chains
- 7. The interacting bond model for the average properties of coiling chains
- 8. Rubber elasticity
- 9. Solutions
- References
- Index.
