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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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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface ; PART I. POLYMER STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES ; 1.Basic principles ; 2.Molecular weight and polymer solutions ; 3.Chemical structure and polymer morphology ; 4.Chemical structure and polymer properties ; 5.Evaluation, characterization, and analysis of polymers ; PART II. VINYL POLYMERS ; 6.Free radical polymerization ; 7.Ionic polymerization ; 8.Vinyl polymerization with complex coordination catalysts ; 9.Reactions of vinyl polymers ; PART III. NONVINYL POLYMERS ; 10.Step-reaction and ring-opening polymerization ; 11.Polyethers, polysulfides, and related polymers ; 12.Polyesters ; 13.Polyamides and related polymers ; 14.Phenol-, urea-, and melamine-formaldehyde polymers ; 15.Heterocyclic polymers ; 16.Inorganic and partially inorganic polymers ; 17.Miscellaneous organic polymers ; 18.Natural polymers ; Appendix A. Commonly used polymer abbreviations ; Appendix B. Polymer literature ; Appendix C. Sources of laboratory experiments in polymer chemistry ; Index