Introduction to Physical Polymer ScienceAn Updated Edition of the Classic Text Polymers constitute the basis for the plastics, rubber, adhesives, fiber, and coating industries. The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Physical Polymer Science acknowledges the industrial success of polymers and the advancements made in the field while continuing to deliver the comprehensive introduction to polymer science that made its predecessors classic texts. The Fourth Edition continues its coverage of amorphous and crystalline materials, glass transitions, rubber elasticity, and mechanical behavior, and offers updated discussions of polymer blends, composites, and interfaces, as well as such basics as molecular weight determination. Thus, interrelationships among molecular structure, morphology, and mechanical behavior of polymers continue to provide much of the value of the book. Newly introduced topics include:
In addition, new sections have been included on fire retardancy, friction and wear, optical tweezers, and more. Introduction to Physical Polymer Science, Fourth Edition provides both an essential introduction to the field as well as an entry point to the latest research and developments in polymer science and engineering, making it an indispensable text for chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, and polymer science and engineering students and professionals. |
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... cellulose are rayon and cellophane. Cotton is nearly pure cellulose, and wood pulp for paper is 80 to 90% cellulose. A well-known trade name for poly(methyl methacrylate) is Plexiglas®. The modulus–temperature behavior of polymers in ...
... Cellulose is a natural product. Another class of polymers are the polyethers, prepared by ring-opening reactions. The most important member of this series is poly(ethylene oxide), CH2nOCH2 Because of the oxygen atom, poly(ethylene oxide) ...
... Cellulose Cotton Epoxy resins Epon® H2C CH CH2 CH O R OH OR¢ R≤ n CH2 CH2 CH2 O CH R aSome people see the mer structure in the third row more clearly with CONHn5CH2 Some other step polymerization mers can also be drawn in two or more ...
... Cellulose and starch are both polysaccharides, being composed of chains of glucose-based rings but bonded differently. Their structures are discussed further in Appendix 2.1. Natural rubber, the hydrocarbon polyisoprene, more closely ...
... cellulose nitrate plasticized with camphor, popular around 1885 for stiff collars and cuffs as celluloid, later most notably used in Thomas Edison's motion picture film (11). Cellulose nitrates were also sold as lacquers, used to coat ...
Contents
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3 Dilute Solution Thermodynamics Molecular Weights and Sizes | 71 |
4 Concentrated Solutions Phase Separation Behavior and Diffusion | 145 |
5 The Amorphous State | 197 |
6 The Crystalline State | 239 |
7 Polymers in the Liquid Crystalline State | 325 |
8 GlassRubber Transition Behavior | 349 |
9 Crosslinked Polymers and Rubber Elasticity | 427 |
10 Polymer Viscoelasticity and Rheology | 507 |
11 Mechanical Behavior of Polymers | 557 |
12 Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces | 613 |
13 Multicomponent Polymeric Materials | 687 |
14 Modern Polymer Topics | 757 |
Index | 827 |