Polymers : the origins and growth of a science
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Polymers : the origins and growth of a science
Wiley, c1985
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Bibliography: p. 254-286
Includes index
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Description
This introduction to polymer science attempts to integrate the important historical developments into the current context of the science. Coverage includes early developments, natural and synthetic polymers, the development of synthetic rubber, physical principles, physical and spectroscopic methods, addition and condensation polymerization, molecular biology and polymers in solution.
Table of Contents
- From early beginning to 1914: Berzelius Coins a Name
- Toward Concepts of Molecular Structure
- Early Observations of Addition Polymerization
- Molecular Weights
- 1914 - 1942
- The Beginnings of a Synthetic Rubber Industry
- The Impact of X-Ray Crystallography
- Staudinger's Struggle for Macromolecules
- New Methods for the Determination of the Molecular Weight of Macromolecules
- Polycondensation
- Addition Polymerization
- 1942 - 1960
- Free Radical Polymerization
- Ionic and Coordination Polymerization
- Advances in Polycondensation and Ring Opening Polymerization
- The Rise of Molecular Biology.
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