Polymer Chemistry, Edition 3rd Edition

The much-anticipated Third Edition expands and reorganizes material to better develop polymer chemistry concepts and update the remaining chapters. New examples and problems are also featured throughout.

This revised edition:

• Integrates concepts from physics, biology, materials science, chemical engineering, and statistics as needed
• Contains mathematical tools and step-by-step derivations for example problems
• Incorporates new theories and experiments using the latest tools and instrumentation and topics that appear prominently in current polymer science journals
• The number of homework problems has been greatly increased, to over 350 in all
• The worked examples and figures have been augmented
• More examples of relevant synthetic chemistry have been introduced into Chapter 2 (“Step-Growth Polymers”)
• More details about atom-transfer radical polymerization and reversible addition/fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization have been added to Chapter 4 (“Controlled Polymerization”)
• Chapter 7 (renamed “Thermodynamics of Polymer Mixtures”) now features a separate section on thermodynamics of polymer blends
• Chapter 8 (still called “Light Scattering by Polymer Solutions”) has been supplemented with an extensive introduction to small-angle neutron scattering

• # Polymers & Textiles