Polymer Science and Technology

Now extensively updated, Polymer Science & Technology, Third Edition offers easy-to-read coverage of all of the field’s fundamentals, from core principles to the latest advances in synthetic and physical polymer chemistry and the newest applications.

This edition is designed to serve equally well as a tutorial for graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level students and as a reference for practicing scientists and engineers. Extensive new coverage in this edition includes:

· The use of ionic liquids

· Recent advances in nano polymer science

· New alternative energy applications, including polymers in fuel cell membranes and organic solar cells

· New medical/bioengineering applications, including polymers as scaffolds in tissue engineering

· A completely new chapter introducing computational polymer science, with coverage of advanced molecular simulations and artificial neural networks

This edition also contains a greatly expanded and significantly updated collection of example and exercise problems.

The Third Edition’s comprehensive coverage also includes: properties of polymers in solutions and in the melt, rubber, and solid states; discussions of all important categories of plastics; and much more. Example calculations are presented throughout.

JOEL R. FRIED is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Past Director of the Polymer Research Center and Head of the Department of the Chemical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored over 125 journal articles and several patents and book chapters and serves as Editor of Polymer Contents and a member of the Editorial Boards of Polymer and the Journal of Polymer Engineering. His research interests include computational polymer science and membrane science and technology. He holds a B.S. degree in biology from RPI, B.S. and M.E. degrees in chemical engineering from RPI, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).