TEC 510 - Polymer Chemistry

three credits
The physical and organic chemistry of monomers and polymers, including a consideration of bonding forces, spectroscopic methods of structure determination, structure and property correlations, fractionation, thermodynamics, and methods of molecular weight determination for polymers in solution; the kinetics of condensation and additional polymerization as applied to polymers and copolymers, mechanism of free radical and ionic polymerization, stereospecific polymers, the chemistry of the more common polymers systems, and preparation of their corresponding monomers. Meets with TEC 410. Note: Textiles graduate courses are not open to undergraduates. See the Graduate Catalogue for graduate general and program requirements.