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FUNDAMENTALS OF POLYMER CHEMISTRY
cod. 07515

borrowed from Corso di TIPO in CDS 0256 - CHIMICA E TECNOLOGIA DEI POLIMERI - cod. 07515
Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Scienza e tecnologia dei materiali polimerici (CHIM/05)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Hub-specific activity
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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Learning objectives

Provide the basic concepts of polymer chemistry

Prerequisites

A basic course in organic chemistry

Course unit content

<br />Object of the course<br />Polymeric materials are one of the most advanced fields of research in chemistry. Polymer science is an highly multidisciplinary field, spanning from organic chemistry to mechanical engineering, which cannot be treated extensively in a single course. Object of the present course is the general introduction to the field of polymer chemistry.<br />Introductory concepts<br />Defnitions and nomenclature; average molecular weight; isomerism and stereoisomerism; main classes of polymers, thermodynamic conditions for polymerization.<br />Polymer synthesis<br />Step-growth polymerization: statistical treatment, theory of gelation.<br />Free radical polymerization, ininc and coordination polymerization.<br />Polymerization processes<br />Copolymers<br />Structure of polymers<br />Conformations and configurations of polymer chains, polymer morphology.<br />Crystallization, melting and glass transition.<br />Polymer characterization<br />Methods for the determination of the average molecular weight, spectroscopic methods for structural analysis.<br />Mechanical and reological properties<br />Introduction to viscoelasticity, mechanical and theoretical models of viscoelastic behaviour.<br /> 

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Teaching methods

<br />Frontal lectures<br />Written and oral examination<br /> 

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