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PART A Polymer Chemistry and Physics
UNIT 1 What Are Polymers?
UNIT 2 Chain Polymerization
UNIT 3 Step-Growth Polymerization
UNIT 4 Ionic Polymerization
UNIT 5 Introduction to Living Radical Polymerization
UNIT 6 Molecular Weight and Its Distributions of Polymers
UNIT 7 Polymer Solution
UNIT 8 Morphology of Solid Polymers
UNIT 9 Structure and Properties of Polymers
UNIT 10 Glass Transition Temperature
UNIT 11 Functional Polymers
UNIT 12 Preparations of Amino Resins in Laboratory
PART B Polymerization Reaction Engineering
UNIT 13 Reactor Types
UNIT 14 Bulk Polymerization
UNIT 15 General Description of VC Suspension Polymerization Process
UNIT 16 Styrene-Butadiene Copolymer
UNIT 17 Heat Transfer Process
UNIT 18 Copolymer Composition Distributions Affected by Micromixing
UNIT 19 Introduction to Modelling of Polymerization Kinetics
UNIT 20 Polymerization Process Instrumentation
UNIT 21 Reactor Scale-up
UNIT 22 UNIPOL Process for Polyethylene
PART C Processing,Properties and Applications of Polymer Material
UNIT 23 Polymer Processing
UNIT 24 Mechanical Properties of Polymers
UNIT 25 Thermal Properties of Polymers
UNIT 26 Polymer Melts
UNIT 27 Processing and Fabrication of Thermoplastics
UNIT 28 General Aspects of Polymer Degradation
UNIT 29 Synthetic Plastics
UNIT 30 Synthetic Rubber
UNIT 31 Structure of Fiber-forming Polymers
UNIT 32 Matching Adhesive to Adherend
UNIT 33 Processing of Thermosets
UNIT 34 Fillers for Polymers
APPENDIXES 聚合物的命名法