San Antonio College Library

"Extensively revised and updated to keep abreast of recent advances, Polymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Third Edition continues to provide a broad-based, high-information text at an introductory, reader-friendly level that illustrates the multidisciplinary nature of polymer science. Adding or amending roughly 50 percent of the material, this new edition strengthens the original's aim to contribute a comprehensive treatment by offering...

Providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students with an introduction to the chemistry of macromolecular substances, this book includes their synthesis and the properties underlying their commercial importance. It also covers developments in polymer science and the methods used for testing and characterizing polymers.

"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of polymer science to life in the twentieth century. Developments in polymer chemistry and engineering have led not only to the creation of a variety of substances such as synthetic fibers, synthetic rubber, and plastic, but also to discoveries about proteins, DNA, and other biological compounds that have revolutionized western medicine." "For these reasons, the history of the discipline tells...