POLYMER CHEMISTRY AN INTRODUCTION

• Main Author: Stevens. Malcolm P. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PREES 2009; New York 2009
• Edition: INTERNATIONAL THIRD EDITION
• Subjects: Chemistry; Polymers; Polymerization
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• Item Description: "Not for sale in the U.S.A. or Canada. Content has been changed for the Middle East, Asia and other markets. Adaptation with the author's approval." --title page Includes index. "Now updated to incorporate recent developments in the field, the international third edition of this successful text offers an excellent introduction to polymer chemistry. Ideal for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and industrial chemists who work with polymers, it is the only current polymer textbook that discusses polymer types according to functional groups." --back cover
• Physical Description: 551 pages illustrations, charts 25 cm
• ISBN: 9780195392098

Offers the most up-to-date treatment available of new developments in this rapidly changing field. It covers dendritic and hyperbranched polymers, olefin polymerization using metallocene catalysts, living free radical polymerization, biodegradable bacterial polyesters, mass spectrometric methods for determining molecular weights of polymers, atomic force microscopy for characterizing polymer surfaces, and polymers exhibiting nonlinear optical properties