Polymer Chemistry detailed syllabus for Plastics Technology (Plastics) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Plastics students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Plastics Technology 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Plastics 3rd Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of polymer chemistry is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
BASIC CONCEPTS OF POLYMERS 9 Basic concepts of polymers – – Monomers -degree of polymerization- significance of functionality – classification of polymers based on :source, structure, thermal processing behaviour, composition and structure, mechanism, intermolecular forces – nomenclature of polymers -tacticity – copolymers and its types :alternate, random, block and graft copolymers.
Unit II
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Unit III
CONDENSATIONPOLYMERISATION 9 Kinetics of poly-condensation reactions (acid catalysed and self-catalysed) – ring-opening polymerization – multi chain polymerization: branching, cross-linking-step-wisecopolymerization-methodsofsynthesizingcopolymers: statistical, alternate and block copolymers.
Unit IV
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Unit V
MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND ITS DISTRIBUTION 9 Molecular weight of polymer – number, weight and viscosity average molecular weights -molecular weight distribution (problems) – molecular weight determination: end-group analysis, colligative properties, osmometry, light scattering, gel permeation chromatography and viscometry.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- FredW.BillMeyerTextbookofPolymerScienceJohnWiley&Sons, 2008.
- George Odian, Principles of Polymerisation, 3rdEdition,McGraw Hill Book Company,NewYork,1991.
- Ravve, Principles of PolymerChemistry,Springer-VerlagNewYork,2012.
- V.R. Gowariker, Polymer Science – New Age International (P) Ltd, Publishers
- JoelR.Fried,PolymerScienceandTechnology,PrenticeHall,2014.
- Premamoy GhoshPolymer Science and TechnologyTataMcGraw-Hill, 2011.
- Charles E.Carraher Jr. Introduction to Polymer Chemistry, Fourth Edition, CRC Press,2017.
Reference Books:
- HermanF.Mark,EncyclopediaofPolymerScienceandTechnology,WileyInterscience;3rd Edition,2004.
- R. J. Samuels, Structured Polymer Properties, John Wiley & Sons, NewYork, 1974.
- Premamoy Ghosh, Polymer Science and Technology of Plastics and Rubbersll, Tata McGraw- Hill, New Delhi, 1990.
- AndrewJ. Peacock and Allison Calhoun, Polymer Chemistry: Properties and Application,Carl Hanser VerlagGmbH&Company,2012.
- RobertJ.Young, Peter A.Lovell, Introduction to Polymers,ThirdEditionCRCPress,2011.
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