Polymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Third Edition

by J.M.G. Cowie, Valeria Arrighi

Overview

Underscoring the multidisciplinary nature of polymer science, this third edition provides a broad-based and comprehensive text at an introductory, reader-friendly level. With nearly 50 percent new or updated material, this edition presents new polymerization methods, characterization techniques, and applications in electronic, biological, and medical settings. New topics include controlled radical polymerization, novel polymer architectures, chain dimension, morphology, determining molecular weights, metallocene catalysts, copolymers, and rheological behavior. The book features real world examples, new chapter problems, and a solutions manual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040063125
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	07/27/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	520
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

J.M.G. Cowie, Valeria Arrighi

Table of Contents

Introduction, Step-Growth Polymerization, Free-Radical, Ionic Polymerization , Linear Copolymers and Other Architectures, Polymer Stereochemistry, Polymerization Reactions Initiated by Metal Catalysts and Transfer Reactions, Polymers in Solution, Polymer Characterization - Molar Masses, Polymer Characterization - Chain Dimensions, Structures, and Morphology, The Crystalline State and Partially Ordered Structures, Rheology and Mechanical Properties, The Elastomeric State, Structure-Property Relations, Polymers for the Electronics Industry, Index

Editorial Reviews

". . . continues the tradition of a well-known respected textbook . . ."

– Mark Moloney, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, in Reviews, June 2008, Vol. 9, No. 16, Issue 1

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