The assignment should be submitted in the handwriting paper during the class or electronic pdf via email before the deadline described in the course schedule table. Ideal polymer has no interactions between monomers, except between neighbors along the. The essential tools of the polymer physical chemist or engineer are derived in this book without skipping any steps. Polymer physics is a key part of macromolecular science. P ol ym er ph ysi cs p ro fesso r chinedum osuji 302 mason lab, 4324357, ch inedum. Given the diversity of possible monomeric units and ways in which they can be bound together, there is a myriad of naturally occurring polymers with enormous diversity in their properties. We model a typical healing experiment of a dpn polymer in fig. The concentration of polymer mgml was determined by gravimetric analysis. It goes beyond other introductory polymer texts, deriving the essential tools of the physical polymer chemist or engineer without skipping any steps. Colby, polymer physics, oxford university press, 2003, 1st edition, isbn. Mechanics of selfhealing polymer networks crosslinked by.
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