Product Description

Text provides comprehensive coverage of polymers, including the fundamental concepts of polymer formation and properties. Includes new and expanded chapters on conformation of single chains in solution, rheometry, coatings and adhesives, and more. For upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Includes chapter exercises. Previous edition: c1996. DLC: Polymers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #807009 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 800 pages

Review
This book is highly recommended to undergraduate and graduate students, to chemists and engineers working in different polymer fields..
–D.Feldman, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Polymer News, September 2003

This new edition of this classic and highly affordable volume deserves a place in any university or corporate library whose users research, fabricate, or test polymers. ...The book provides a nice balance between an explanation of fundamentals, solution and solid state properties, processing and methods of characterization. Throughout, the book maintains a focus on industrial polymers and effectively covers the entire life cycle of modern polymer materials. Appendixes, particularly valuable for graduate students, not only list the typical properties reported for some major industrial polymers used for molding extrusion or fiber making, but also provide ASTM test methods used. Summing up: Highly recommended.
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–P.G. Heiden, Michigan Technological University, CHOICE, March 2004

This new edition of this classic and highly affordable volume deserves a place in any university or corporate library. -- Choice Magazine, March 2004

About the Author
Ferdinand Rodriguez is Professor Emeritus, Cornell University. He has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University for over 40 years. He also has seven years experience in the polymer industry. He received his B.S. and M.S degrees from Case Institute of Technology and his Ph.D from Cornell, all in Chemical Engineering. Claude Cohen is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University. He received his B.S. from American University in Cairo and his Ph.D from Princeton University in Chemistry. He was a Katzir-Katchalsky Fellow in the Polymers Department at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and a research associate in chemical engineering at Caltech before joining Cornell in 1977. Christopher Ober is Francis Norwood Bard Professor of Materials Engineering and Director Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. His research insterests include the synthesis, processing and characterization of functional polymers. Of special interest are systems which undergo self-organization/assembly including liquid crystalline polymers and block copolymers. Lynden Archer is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell. He received his B.Sc in Chemical Engineering (Polymer Science) from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. Prior to joining Cornell he has held positions at Texas A&M University and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Customer Reviews

Covers them all!
I haven't read it all, but through my quick glance this is a very helpful book. The book covers briefly regarding chemistry. However, it spends lots of ink on physical properties, their testing, and processing, which is very useful for application purposes. You get a complete picture regarding the make, the test, and the use of polymers.