PART A Polymer Chemistry and Physics1
UNIT 1 What Are Polymers?1
UNIT 2 Chain Polymerization7
UNIT 3 Step-Growth Polymerization13
UNIT 4 Ionic Polymerization19
UNIT 5 Introduction to Living Radical Polymerization25
UNIT 6 Molecular Weight and Its Distributions of Polymers30
UNIT 7 Polymer Solution36
UNIT 8 Morphology of Solid Polymers42
UNIT 9 Structure and Properties of Polymers48
UNIT 10 Glass Transition Temperature53
UNIT 11 Functional Polymers58
UNIT 12 Preparations of Amino Resins in Laboratory64

PART B Polymerization Reaction Engineering71
UNIT 13 Reactor Types71
UNIT 14 Bulk Polymerization77
UNIT 15 General Description of VC Suspension Polymerization Process81
UNIT 16 Styrene-Butadiene Copolymer86
UNIT 17 Heat Transfer Process93
UNIT 18 Copolymer Composition Distributions Affected by Micromixing98
UNIT 19 Introduction to Modelling of Polymerization Kinetics104
UNIT 20 Polymerization Process Instrumentation110
UNIT 21 Reactor Scale-up116
UNIT 22 UNIPOL Process for Polyethylene121

PART C Processing,Properties and Applications of Polymer Material127
UNIT 23 Polymer Processing127
UNIT 24 Mechanical Properties of Polymers133
UNIT 25 Thermal Properties of Polymers137
UNIT 26 Polymer Melts141
UNIT 27 Processing and Fabrication of Thermoplastics145
UNIT 28 General Aspects of Polymer Degradation151
UNIT 29 Synthetic Plastics156
UNIT 30 Synthetic Rubber162
UNIT 31 Structure of Fiber-forming Polymers169
UNIT 32 Matching Adhesive to Adherend174
UNIT 33 Processing of Thermosets178
UNIT 34 Fillers for Polymers182

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