TEXTBOOK OF POLYMER SCIENCE
FRED W. BILLMEYER JR.
TEXTBOOK OF POLYMER SCIENCE - 3a. edición - WILEY Estados Unidos 1984 - 578 pg. ilustrado 21 cm x 15.5 cm
"I am inclined to think that the development of polymerization is, perhaps, the biggest thing chemistry has done, where it has had the biggest effect on everyday life. The world would be a totally different place without artificial fibers, plastics, elastomers, etc. Even in the field of electronics, what would you do without insulation? And there you come back to polymers again."t
And indeed one does. From the lowly throwaway candy wrapper to the artificial heart, polymers touch our lives as does no other class of materials, with no end to new uses and improved products in sight. Yet, many instances of the need for better education in the polymer field, both in our universities and for the public remain unchanged. Some of these were discussed at length in the Preface to the second edition of this book, which follows, and I shall not repeat them.
The present revision has two major directions. The first is to improve its value as a textbook. To this end I have rearranged the text to consider polymerization before describing the properties of polymers, a change that several of my colleagues feel has pedagogical advantages. I have also drawn on my files from 25 years of teaching polymer science, at the University of Delaware, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to provide material for a section on Discussion Questions and Problems at the end of each chapter.
The second objective of the revision is the more common one, to bring the contents up-to-date by judicious addition, deletion, and revision, and in this I hope I have been successful. Many sections have been changed little, reflecting the maturity of certain aspects of polymer science, but the reader will find new material inserted in every chapter. A few additions of particular note are a section on polymerization reaction engineering in Chapter 6, a discussion of scaling concepts in Chapter 7, and expansion of the sections on polymer processing in Chapter 17.
I wish to thank many colleagues, both in the Polymer Science and Engineering Program at Rensselaer and elsewhere, for valuable suggestions that have been incorporated into this revision. Seventy-five Rensselaer students who used a first draft of about two-thirds of the text in the course Introduction to Polymer Chemistry also provided helpful ideas and corrections.
The text was capably typed and retyped by Peggy Ruggeri. To her, to my graduate students, and especially to my patient wife Annette, I owe many thanks
0471031968
Física
QD 381. / B52
TEXTBOOK OF POLYMER SCIENCE - 3a. edición - WILEY Estados Unidos 1984 - 578 pg. ilustrado 21 cm x 15.5 cm
"I am inclined to think that the development of polymerization is, perhaps, the biggest thing chemistry has done, where it has had the biggest effect on everyday life. The world would be a totally different place without artificial fibers, plastics, elastomers, etc. Even in the field of electronics, what would you do without insulation? And there you come back to polymers again."t
And indeed one does. From the lowly throwaway candy wrapper to the artificial heart, polymers touch our lives as does no other class of materials, with no end to new uses and improved products in sight. Yet, many instances of the need for better education in the polymer field, both in our universities and for the public remain unchanged. Some of these were discussed at length in the Preface to the second edition of this book, which follows, and I shall not repeat them.
The present revision has two major directions. The first is to improve its value as a textbook. To this end I have rearranged the text to consider polymerization before describing the properties of polymers, a change that several of my colleagues feel has pedagogical advantages. I have also drawn on my files from 25 years of teaching polymer science, at the University of Delaware, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to provide material for a section on Discussion Questions and Problems at the end of each chapter.
The second objective of the revision is the more common one, to bring the contents up-to-date by judicious addition, deletion, and revision, and in this I hope I have been successful. Many sections have been changed little, reflecting the maturity of certain aspects of polymer science, but the reader will find new material inserted in every chapter. A few additions of particular note are a section on polymerization reaction engineering in Chapter 6, a discussion of scaling concepts in Chapter 7, and expansion of the sections on polymer processing in Chapter 17.
I wish to thank many colleagues, both in the Polymer Science and Engineering Program at Rensselaer and elsewhere, for valuable suggestions that have been incorporated into this revision. Seventy-five Rensselaer students who used a first draft of about two-thirds of the text in the course Introduction to Polymer Chemistry also provided helpful ideas and corrections.
The text was capably typed and retyped by Peggy Ruggeri. To her, to my graduate students, and especially to my patient wife Annette, I owe many thanks
0471031968
Física
QD 381. / B52
