Polymer Chemistry, Third Edition

Enhance your understanding of polymer properties at the molecular level with the comprehensive Polymer Chemistry test bank. This third edition delves into fundamental principles based on chemical structures, polymer synthesis, characterization, and properties. It presents a logical progression of concepts, incorporating mathematical tools for advanced calculations.

The updated Third Edition has been expanded and reorganized to delve deeper into polymer chemistry principles and features new examples and problems throughout.

Key features of the revised edition include:

• Integration of concepts from various disciplines such as physics, biology, materials science, chemical engineering, and statistics
• In-depth mathematical tools and step-by-step derivations to explain key concepts
• Inclusion of new theories, experiments using the latest instrumentation, and topics highlighted in current polymer science journals
• Significantly increased number of homework problems, totaling over 350
• Enhanced worked examples and figures
• Introduction of additional examples of relevant synthetic chemistry in Chapter 2 (“Step-Growth Polymers”)
• Expanded coverage of atom-transfer radical polymerization and reversible addition/fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization in Chapter 4 (“Controlled Polymerization”)
• Thorough exploration of the thermodynamics of polymer blends in Chapter 7
• Detailed introduction to small-angle neutron scattering in Chapter 8 (“Light Scattering by Polymer Solutions”)

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