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Polymers are used in everything from nylon stockings to commercial aircraft to artificial heart valves, and they have a key role in addressing international competitiveness and other national issues. "Polymer Science and Engineering" explores the universe of polymers, describing their properties and wide-ranging potential, and presents the state of the science, with a hard look at downward trends in research support. Leading experts offer findings, recommendations, and research directions. Lively vignettes provide snapshots of polymers in everyday applications. The volume includes an overview of the use of polymers in such fields as medicine and biotechnology, information and communication, housing and construction, energy and transportation, national defense, and environmental protection. The committee looks at the various classes of polymers-plastics, fibers, composites, and other materials, as well as polymers used as membranes and coatings-and how their composition and specific methods of processing result in unparalleled usefulness. The reader can also learn the science behind the technology, including efforts to model polymer synthesis after nature's methods, and breakthroughs in characterizing polymer properties needed for twenty-first-century applications. This informative volume will be important to chemists, engineers, materials scientists, researchers, industrialists, and policymakers interested in the role of polymers, as well as to science and engineering educators and students.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Chemistry Organic chemistry

• Full title: Polymer Science and Engineering
• Subtitle: The Shifting Research Frontiers
• Author: Committee on Polymer Science and Engineering, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, Division on Engineering and Physical Sci
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780309076777
• ISBN: 0309076773
• ID: 04577389
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Weight: 301 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1994

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