A Laboratory Manual of Polymers: Volume I

A Laboratory Manual of Polymers provides laboratory activities that will help students to understand the basic principles of polymer synthesis, structure and functions. It is intended to enable students to prepare a variety of common polymers, to investigate their properties, and explore their uses and applications.

This book is intended to be used as a laboratory manual at the graduate and postgraduate levels in materials science as well as for a polymer chemistry course.

The book, divided into four chapters covering: - Different kinds of polymerization reactions and their kinetic aspects.
- Detailed spectral, thermal and morphological characterization of polymers.
- Identification of polymers with FT-IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR spectroscopies.
- Thermal characterization of polymers through DSC and TGA techniques.
- Structural characterization with XRD.
- Purification procedures of monomers and solvents.
- 26 experiments and general analytical techniques to characterize common polymers.