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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change 6e

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Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change 6th Edition by Martin Silberberg accommodates unprecedented macroscopic-to-microscopic molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked exercises in each chapter, and an intensive vary of end-of-chapter issues, which offer partaking purposes covering a wide variety of pursuits, including engineering, medicine, materials, and environmental studies.

Modifications have been made to the text and purposes all through to make them extra succinct, to the paintings to make it extra teachable and fashionable, and to the design to make it more simplistic and open. The sixth edition has been modified in some ways to keep pace with the evolution of pupil learning.

Chapter 2 presents a new figure and desk on molecular modeling. Dialogue of empirical formulation has been moved from Chapter 2 to Chapter 3 so it seems just earlier than molecular formulas. Within Chapter 3, some sample issues have been segmented and 7 new pattern issues introduced to raised focus problem-fixing on distinct concepts. Chapter 3 contains extra extensive use of stoichiometry reaction tables in limiting-reactant problems.

Chapter 4 presents a new molecular-scene sample problem on depicting an ionic compound in aqueous solution. Chapter 5 includes a new subsection on how gas laws apply to breathing. Chapter 5 also contains new short discussions on the relevance of gas density. Also in Chapter 5, coverage of reaction stoichiometry has been more logically grouped with other rearrangements of the ideal gas law. Chapter 5 contains new illustrations of diffusion and origin of pressure.

In Chapter 5, Chemical Connections to Atmospheric Science uses the gas laws to explain why the troposphere has a uniform composition. Chapter 7 includes a new sample problem on using the Rydberg equation. Chapter 8 contains a new subsection covering electron configuration, chemical reactivity, and redox behavior. In Chapter 9, Tools of the Laboratory: Infrared Spectroscopy contains a new discussion of carbon dioxide in global warming.

Chapter 11 includes a new discussion of limitations to d-orbital hybridization. Chapter 12 presents new short discussions of everyday applications of surface tension, capillarity, and viscosity. Chapter 13 presents everyday applications of freezing point depression and osmotic pressure. Chapter 14 provides a thorough, focused survey of maingroup descriptive chemistry. Chapter 15 contains new art for the molecular biology of protein synthesis and DNA replication.

Chapter 16 incorporates two of the fifth edition’s boxed features—on measuring reaction rates and on enzymes—into the chapter text. Chapter 17 makes consistent use of benchmarks for determining when an assumption is valid. Chapter 17 incorporates the fifth edition’s boxed feature on ammonia production into the chapter text. Chapter 19 incorporates the fifth edition’s boxed feature on cave formation into the chapter text.

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Introduction to Physical Polymer Science 4e, Sperling

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Introduction to Physical Polymer Science 4th Edition by L. H. Sperling describes 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.

This text 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 nanocomposites, including carbon nanotubes and exfoliated montmorillonite clays, the structure, motions, and functions of DNA and proteins, as well as the interfaces of polymeric biomaterials with living organisms and the glass transition behavior of nano-thin plastic films. In addition, new sections have been included on fire retardancy, friction and wear, optical tweezers, and more.

This book 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. Each chapter includes several classroom demonstrations and problem sets.

Updated and revised, it focuses on the role of molecular conformation and configuration in determining the physical behavior of polymers. New features include the amorphous and crystalline states of polymers; macromolecular hypothesis and historical development of photophysics and fluorescence; thermodynamics of blending polymers and polymer/polymer phase diagrams; a discussion of rheology plus gelatinous materials; and a variety of contemporary topics emphasizing surface, interfacial and electrical behavior of polymers, nonlinear optics and high temperature substances.

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Polymer Chemistry: An Introduction 3rd Edition, Stevens

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Polymer Chemistry: An Introduction 3rd Edition, by Malcolm P. Stevens offers an excellent introduction to polymer chemistry. Ideal for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and industrial chemists who work with polymers, it is the only current polymer textbook that discusses polymer types according to functional groups. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the chemistry of macromolecular substances, with particular emphasis on polymers that are important commercially and the properties that make them important.

Major topics include polymer synthesis and nomenclature; molecular weight and molecular weight distribution; reactions of polymers; recycling of polymers; methods used for characterizing and testing polymers; morphology; stereoregular polymers; polymer blends; step-growth, chain-growth, and ring-opening polymerization; commercially important addition and condensation polymers; and heterocyclic, inorganic, and natural polymers. Review exercises, many including journal references, are provided to help lead students into the polymer literature.

This text offers the most up-to-date treatment available of new developments in this rapidly changing field. It covers dendritic and hyperbranched polymers, olefin polymerization using metallocene catalysts, living free radical polymerization, biodegradable bacterial polyesters, mass spectrometric methods for determining molecular weights of polymers, atomic force microscopy for characterizing polymer surfaces, and polymers exhibiting nonlinear optical properties.

Organized in a useful fashion, proceeding from fundamental principles to more advanced concepts, this book allows an instructor to structure a course following the text, picking some subjects for emphasis and touching others lightly. The end-of-chapter exercises are excellent. It provides a useful and comprehensive survey of the chemical and physical principles that underlie the practice of polymer and composite materials. Easily accessible to the advanced undergraduate chemist and well within the grasp of graduate students trained in allied areas.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Contemporary Polymer Chemistry 3rd Edition by Allcock

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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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Polymer Science and Technology 3rd Edition, Joel Fried

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Polymer Science and Technology 3rd Edition by Joel Fried offers easy-to-read coverage of all of the field’s fundamentals, from core principles to the latest advances in synthetic and physical polymer chemistry and the newest applications. This edition is designed to serve equally well as a tutorial for graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level students and as a reference for practicing scientists and engineers.

Extensive new coverage in this edition includes the use of ionic liquids, recent advances in nano polymer science, new alternative energy applications, including polymers in fuel cell membranes and organic solar cells, new medical/bioengineering applications, including polymers as scaffolds in tissue engineering.

There is completely new chapter introducing computational polymer science, with coverage of advanced molecular simulations and artificial neural networks. This edition contains a greatly expanded and significantly updated collection of example and exercise problems. The comprehensive coverage also includes: properties of polymers in solutions and in the melt, rubber, and solid states; discussions of all important categories of plastics; and much more. Example calculations are presented throughout.

Expanded coverage of important topics in polymer science and engineering-Including polymer synthesis such as metallocene catalysis, atom-transfer radical polymerization, the use of supercritical fluids as a polymerization medium, the genetic engineering of polymers, nanocomposites, rubber elasticity, and degradation and recycling introduces students to the latest and most important topics in polymer science with example calculations, homework problems, and bibliographic references.

This text also provides students with greater pedagogical resources for a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Expanded discussion of crystallinity and greater coverage of characterization methods-Including established techniques such as microhardness and tribology and new instrumental methods including temperature-modulated DSC gives students a greater understanding of these topics.

Finally, this book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the current state of polymer science and technology and emerging areas of growth. In addition to synthetic polymer chemistry, the book also covers the properties of polymers in solutions and in the melt, rubber, and solid states, surveying all important categories of plastics. It includes detailed coverage of both polymer processing principles and the latest polymer applications in a wide range of industries-including medicine, biotechnology, chemicals, and electronics.

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Principles of Polymerization 4th Edition, George Odian

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Principles of Polymerization 4th Edition by George Odian presents the complete explanation on polymer synthesis, fully updated to reflect today's state of the art. New and expanded coverage includes metallocene and post-metallocene polymerization catalysts, living polymerizations (radical, cationic, anionic), dendrimer, hyperbranched, brush, and other polymer architectures and assemblies.

Other topics include block copolymers, high-temperature polymers, inorganic and organometallic polymers, conducting polymers, ring-opening polymer ization, in vivo and in vitro polymerization. Appropriate for both novice and advanced students as well as professionals, this comprehensive yet accessible resource enables the reader to achieve an advanced, up-to-date understanding of polymer synthesis.

Different methods of polymerization, reaction parameters for synthesis, molecular weight, branching and crosslinking, and the chemical and physical structure of polymers all receive ample coverage. A thorough discussion at the elementary level prefaces each topic, with a more advanced treatment following. The language remains straightforward and geared towards the student.

The large chains of molecules known as polymers are currently used in everything from "wash and wear" clothing to rubber tires to protective enamels and paints. Yet the practical applications of polymers are only increasing; innovations in polymer chemistry constantly bring both improved and entirely new uses for polymers onto the technological playing field.

Extensively updated, this edition provides an excellent textbook for today's students of polymer chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, as well as a current reference for the researcher or other practitioner working in these areas. Chemists, chemical engineers, and material scientists who want to know more about the chemistry and structural control of polymers would find extensive information in this book.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Introduction to Polymer Physics by M. Doi and H. See

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Introduction to Polymer Physics, by M. Doi and H. See gives a clear and concise introduction to the modern theory of polymer physics. It describes basic concepts and methods and explains the statistical properties of the assembly of chain-like molecules; topics include scaling theory, concentration fluctuation, gels, and reptation.

Polymers are very large molecules consisting of many atoms covalently bonded like a chain. Their structure gives unique physical properties to polymer solutions. This is an ideal volume for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in polymer physics. It describes basic concepts and methods to discuss the statistical properties of the assembly of chain-like molecules. This involves scaling theory, concentration fluctuation, gels and reptation.

The finest aspect of the book is its thickness; in just over 100 pages, author essentially summarizes everything in Polymer Dynamics. In some sense the book is meant as a bridge between the graduate level courses. This book is aimed for graduate students in physics, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and also senior undergraduates in these subjects.

Table of Contents

1. Properties of an isolated polymer molecule
2. Concentrated solutions and melts
3. Polymer gels
4. Molecule motion of polymers in dilute solutions
5. Molecule motion in entangled polymer systems
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An Introduction to Polymer Physics by David I. Bower

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An Introduction to Polymer Physics by David I. Bower offers general introduction to solid polymer physics at a more elementary level than many existing books, assuming no previous knowledge of polymers. It begins with a brief history of the development of synthetic polymers and an overview of the methods of polymerization and processing.

By following descriptions of important experimental techniques, the book deals with the structure and properties of solid polymers, blends, copolymers and liquid crystal polymers. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, materials science or chemistry, it includes worked examples, and problems with solutions.

In the following chapter, David Bower describes important experimental techniques used in the study of polymers. The main part of the book, however, is devoted to the structure and properties of solid polymers, including blends, copolymers and liquid crystal polymers. This book will be particularly welcome by physicists, but it will also be extremely useful to a much wider audience, ranging from chemists to chemical engineers, to material scientists.

It is an excellent addition to any bookshelf. The book will help undergraduates to understand difficult concepts and introduce experienced polymer chemists to new areas. In short, this is an excellent book, which I believe will appeal to a wide range of chemists, physicists, material scientists, and engineers. The language used is rigorous, but the writing is very clear, and coherent from section to section. For practitioners of polymer and materials science, this book will be a great asset for teaching.

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Polymer Physics by M. Rubinstein and Ralph H. Colby

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Polymer Physics, by M. Rubinstein and Ralph H. Colby details the fundamental concepts of polymer melts, solutions, and gels in terms of both static structure and dynamics. It goes beyond other introductory polymer texts, deriving the essential tools of the physical polymer chemist or engineer without skipping any steps.

The book is divided into four parts. Part One summarizes the necessary concepts of a first course on polymers and covers the conformations of single polymer chains. Part Two deals with the thermodynamics of polymer solutions and melts, including chain conformations in those states. Part Three applies the concepts of Part Two to the formation and properties of polymer networks. Part Four explains the essential aspects of how polymers move in both melt and solution states.

The text assumes a working knowledge of calculus, physics, and chemistry, but no prior knowledge of polymers. It is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in Condensed Matter Physics, Soft Materials, and Polymers. The last section is devoted to the polymer dyanmics, where chain models and polymer relaxation ideas are developed and discussed. The last two sections of the book cover topics which are of immense current interest, and have had original and critical contributions from the authors.

The book being reviewed is simply great. Judging by its clear style, its selection of topics, or its self contained material, it is an extremely well thought out, thorough, and compeltely laudable book in every way. This is a book worth reading.

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