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Basics of Polymer Chemistry

Muralisrinivasan Natamai Subramanian

Basics of Polymer Chemistry is of great interest to the chemistry audience. The basic properties of polymers, including diverse fundamental and applied aspects, are presented. This book constitutes a basis for understanding polymerization, and it presents a comprehensive overview of the scientific research of polymers. The chapters presented can be used as a reference for those interested in understanding the sustainable development in polymers.

Basics of Polymer Chemistry provides a balanced coverage of the key developments in this field, and highlights recent and emerging technical achievements. The topics covered present a comprehensive overview of the subject area and are therefore of interest to professors and students. The recent developments in polymerization using catalysts, homo and copolymerization are presented, and it contains current efforts in designing new polymer architectures. Improved property performance attributes of the polymers by controlling their molecular-structural characteristics such as molecular weight distribution, comonomer type content distribution, and branching level are also discussed.

Book Details

  • Publisher: River Publishers
  • Publish Date: Sep 30th, 2017
  • Pages: 236
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.56in - 1.12lb
  • EAN: 9788793519015
  • Categories: Chemistry - Industrial & TechnicalChemical & BiochemicalPhysics - Polymer

About the Author

Subramanian, Muralisrinivasan Natamai: - "Muralisrinivasan Natamai Subramanian is a plastic technology consultant specializing in materials, additives, and processing equipment, including troubleshooting. The author obtained his B.Sc in Chemistry from the Madurai Kamaraj University and his M.Sc (1988) in Polymer Technology from Bharathiar University. He received his Post Graduate Diploma in Plastics Processing Technology from CIPET, Chennai. He has also completed his Doctors of Philosophy in Polymer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University. He worked in the plastic process industry, mainly in R&D, for 13 years before turning to consultancy and building up an international client base. Muralisrinivasan conducts plastic processing seminars as well as serves as a Board of Studies Expert member of Colleges in India dealing with curriculum of technology subjects. He authored Update on troubleshooting in Thermoforming in 2010, Update on troubleshooting PVC processing (Smithers Rapra), The basics of troubleshooting in plastics processing (Scrivener-Wiley Jointly), Update on troubleshooting in PVC Extrusion process (Smithers Rapra) and Plastics testing - New instrumental methods (Momentum Press)."