Polymer Physics 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.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
FUNDAMENTALS OF POLYMER PHYSICS 9 Potential energy and conformational energy of molecules – conformations and configurations, Tacticity, isomeric states and isomerism in polymers, stereoisomerism, geometric isomerism – Random coils and average end to end distance – (Derivation only)
Unit II
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Unit III
POLYMER CRYSTAL FORMATION 9 Amorphous State – Transition temperatures- Glass transition temperature Theory- Factors influencing glass transition Temperature- Crystalline State – polymorphism – Polymer single crystals, lamellae, spherulites – Crystallinity -factors affecting crystallinity -X-ray diffraction.
Unit IV
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Unit V
POLYMER SOLUTIONS 9 Polymer solutions – Terms and definitions, types of solutions – Hildebrand approach, Flory Huggins theory – Thermodynamic view of miscibility, upper critical solution temperature (UCST), lower critical solution temperature (LCST) – solubility parameter, determination of solubility parameter of polymers – theta conditions.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Ulf W. Gedde, Polymer Physics, Springer – Science +Business Media, B.V. 1st Edition, 43 2001.
- S. Glasstone and D. Lewis, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Textbook Publishers, 2003.
Reference Books:
- Michael Rubinstein, R. H. Colby, Polymer Physics – Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Ulrich Eisele, Introduction to Polymer Physics, Springer 1990.
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