Seiffert S. Physical Chemistry of Polymers. A Conceptual Introduction 2020

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This book introduces the concepts of physical chemistry of polymers. It provides a basis to bridge polymer chemistry, which targets microscopic chain structures, and polymer engineering, which targets macroscopic material properties and functions. Topics covered are single chain statistics, multi-chain interactions, and chain dynamics, both from a viewpoint of structure, properties (mostly mechanical ones), and their interrelation. In all that, the author encourages the reader to think conceptually.
Explains complex facts through models, diagrams and illustrations, rather than equations.
Accessible to chemists, chemical engineers, and materials scientists.
Introduction to polymer physical chemistry
Ideal polymer chains
Real polymer chains
Polymer thermodynamics
Mechanics and rheology of polymer systems
Scattering analysis of polymer systems