Essentials of Polymer Science and Engineering is at once an introduction to polymers and an imaginative invitation to the field of polymer science and engineering as a whole, including plastics and plastics processing.
Essentials of Polymer Science and Engineering explains the science of polymer engineering, and at the same time, tells the story of the field from its beginnings to the present, indicating when and how polymer discoveries have played a role in history and society.
Contents
- Preliminary Rant
- The Early History of Polymers
- Polymer Materials: Boon or Bane?
1. Microstructure and Molecular Weight
- Polymer Microstructure
- Molecular Weight
2. Polymer Synthesis
- Step-Growth Polymerizations
- Chain or Addition Polymers
- Polymerization Processes
3. Polymerization Kinetics
- Chemical Kinetics
- The Reactivity of Chain Molecules
- The Kinetics of Step-Growth Polymerization
- The Kinetics of Chain Polymerizations
4. Polymerization: Probability and Statistics
- Statistics of Linear Polycondensation
- Statistics of Chain Polymerizations
- Branching and Gelation
5. Copolymerization
- Kinetics of Chain-Growth Copolymerization
- Copolymer Sequence Distributions
6. Spectroscopy and the Characterization of Chain Microstructure
- Molecular Spectroscopy of Polymers
- Characterization of Microstructure
7. Structure and Morphology
- States of Matter
- Conformations
- Order and Morphology
8. Natural Polymers
- Polypeptides and Proteins
- The Conformation of Polypeptides and Proteins
- Polysaccharides
- Poly: DNA and RNA
9.Crystallization, Melting and the Glass Transition
- A Superficial and Thoroughly Incomplete Review of Thermodynamics
- Thermal Transitions in Polymers
- Crystallization
- The Crystalline Melting Temperature
- The Glass Transition Temperature
10. Polymer Solutions and Blends
- Entropy of Mixing
- Enthalpy of Mixing
- The Flory-Huggins Equation
- Cohesive Energy Density
- Phase Behavior
- Dilute Solutions
11. Molecular Weight and Branching
- Osmotic Pressure
- Light Scattering
- Viscosity
- Size Exclusion Chromatography
- Long Chain Branching
12. Mechanical and Rheological Properties
- Mechanical Properties--Definitions
- Elastic Properties of Materials
- Stress/Strain Characteristics of Polymers
- Rubber Elasticity
- Polymer Melt Rheology
- Viscoelasticity
13. Processing
- Extrusion
- Injection Molding
- Injection Molding Variations
- Thermoforming
- Rotational Molding
Index
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