Contemporary Polymer Chemistry 3rd Edition, by Harry Allcock, Fred Lampe Deceased and James Mark offers comprehensive coverage of the relationship between fundamental chemistry and the uses of polymers. This book presents a complete overview of the synthetic, kinetic, structural, and applied aspects of modern polymer chemistry as well as coverage of industrial and medical applications.
Comprehensive coverage from polymer chemistry, through theory and characterization, to materials science and applications provides students with a large array of topics. Up-to-date coverage includes updated information on organometallic polymerization catalysts, molecular weight determination, inorganic polymers, biomedical polymers, electro-optical and electro-active polymers, structure-property relationships, testing and fabrication of polymers, polymer morphology, conformational analysis, and thermodynamics.
Comprehensive end-of-chapter questions test students' understanding of the material. Accessible presentation enables students from a wide array of disciplines to understand the material. Recent references added at the ends of the chapters inform students of the latest field data.
The book is divided into five parts. Part I (Chapters 1-9) provides an introduction to the different classes of polymers and the ways in which they are synthesized and modified. Individual chapters deal with condensation, free-radical, and ionic or coordination polymerization, with photolytic, high energy radiation, and electrolytic polymerization, polymerization of cyclic compounds, biological macromolecules, with the ways that synthetic polymers can be modified chemically, and with polymers that contain inorganic elements. Several of the chapters in this section have been revised to reflect recent developments.
Part II (Chapters 10-13) deals with thermodynamics, equilibria, and polymerization kinetics. Chapter 10 provides an elementary overview of the underlying principles that determine whether a monomer or a cyclic compound will polymerize or if a polymer will depolymerize. Chapters 11,12, and 13 deal respectively with the kinetics of condensation, free-radical, and ionic polymerizations.
Part III (Chapters 14-19) covers the physical methods that are employed for the characterization of polymers. Individual chapters cover "absolute" molecular weight measurements by osmometry, light scattering and ultracentrifugation; secondary molecular weight methods such as solution viscosity and gel permeation chromatography; thermodynamics of high polymer solutions; polymer morphology; glass transitions and crystallinity; conformational analysis; and X-ray diffraction techniques.
In Part IV (Chapters 20 and 21) we discuss the engineering aspects of polymer science, including the fabrication of polymers and testing techniques. Here too, new sections have been added that deal with polymer chain orientation and materials reinforcement, with the behavior of polymers within fabrication machinery, and a much expanded section on rubberlike materials.
In Part V (Chapters 22-24) the emphasis is on the uses of polymers and the ways in which the polymer scientist can correlate molecular structure with properties and applications. Chapter 22 provides an overview of how the practicing chemist intuitively relates molecular structure to polymer properties as a route to the design of new materials.
Chapter 23 gives an account of the rapidly expanding field of electroactive and electro-optical polymers, a subject that it likely to be the focus of much research in the future. The last chapter (Chapter 24) deals with the biomedical uses of synthetic polymers, a topic that continues to grow in importance year by year, and which accounts for an increasing proportion of the total research effort in polymer science.
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