Course Notes: Polymer Structure

• Polymer Basics
  • An introduction to polymers and polymer structure (Ch 1 and 2 of Introduction to Polymers, 2nd ed., by Young and Lovell)
  • A short review of polymer conformation
• A Primer on Polymer Tacticity
• Bulk Polymers
  • Some typical properties of commercial polymers (from Billmeyer, Textbook of Polymer Science, 3rd ed., Wiley Interscience.
  • The pair distribution function
  • Primer on amorphous polymers and the glass transition (Section 4.4 of Introduction to Polymers, 2nd ed., by R.J. Young and P.A. Lovell)

• Billmeyer, "Textbook of Polymer Science", Wiley Interscience: New York, 1971.
• R.J. Young and P.A. Lovell, "Introduction to Polymers", 2nd ed., Chapmann and Hall: London, 1991.
• P.J. Flory, "Principles of Polymer Chemistry", Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1953.