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ENCH 424

Polymer Chemistry

3.00 units · Undergraduate / professional

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Polymer nomenclature and synthesis
  • step and chain polymerization
  • solution thermodynamics
  • chain dimensions
  • molar-mass measurements
  • scattering and viscometry
  • chromatography
  • glass transition and crystallinity
  • multicomponent systems
  • elasticity, viscoelasticity and fracture.

Readings

  • Required: Introduction to Polymers, 3rd edition, CRC Press. Authors are not named in the syllabus textbook table.
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