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    Polymer

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    Polymers are large molecules composed of repeating structural units called monomers. The backbone of carbon chain polymers consists of carbon atoms bonded together in a chain. Ethylene gas can be reacted to form polyethylene, a solid polymer. Polymer chains come in a range of lengths and molecular weights. Properties depend on factors like molecular weight, configuration such as head-to-tail versus head-to-head, and degree of branching or crosslinking. Thermoplastics can be remelted while thermosettings cannot once solidified. Copolymers consist of two or more types of monomers in various arrangements. Polymer crystallinity depends on the ordering of molecular chains.

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    Polymers are large molecules composed of repeating structural units called monomers. The backbone of carbon chain polymers consists of carbon atoms bonded together in a chain. Ethylene gas can be reacted to form polyethylene, a solid polymer. Polymer chains come in a range of lengths and molecular weights. Properties depend on factors like molecular weight, configuration such as head-to-tail versus head-to-head, and degree of branching or crosslinking. Thermoplastics can be remelted while thermosettings cannot once solidified. Copolymers consist of two or more types of monomers in various arrangements. Polymer crystallinity depends on the ordering of molecular chains.

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    Polymers are large molecules composed of repeating structural units called monomers. The backbone of carbon chain polymers consists of carbon atoms bonded together in a chain. Ethylene gas can be reacted to form polyethylene, a solid polymer. Polymer chains come in a range of lengths and molecular weights. Properties depend on factors like molecular weight, configuration such as head-to-tail versus head-to-head, and degree of branching or crosslinking. Thermoplastics can be remelted while thermosettings cannot once solidified. Copolymers consist of two or more types of monomers in various arrangements. Polymer crystallinity depends on the ordering of molecular chains.

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    Polymer

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    Polymers are large molecules composed of repeating structural units called monomers. The backbone of carbon chain polymers consists of carbon atoms bonded together in a chain. Ethylene gas can be reacted to form polyethylene, a solid polymer. Polymer chains come in a range of lengths and molecular weights. Properties depend on factors like molecular weight, configuration such as head-to-tail versus head-to-head, and degree of branching or crosslinking. Thermoplastics can be remelted while thermosettings cannot once solidified. Copolymers consist of two or more types of monomers in various arrangements. Polymer crystallinity depends on the ordering of molecular chains.

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    What is polymer?

    POLYMER MOLECULES
    For carbon chain polymers, the backbone of each chain is a string of carbon atoms. Many times each carbon atom singly bonds to two adjacent carbons atoms on either side, represented schematically in two dimensions as follows:

    POLYMER MOLECULES
    If the ethylene gas is reacted under appropriate conditions, it will transform to polyethylene, which is a solid polymeric material

    POLYMER MOLECULES
    These long molecules are composed of structural entities called repeat units, which are successively repeated along the chain

    MOLECULAR WEIGHT
    During the polymerization process not all polymer chains will grow to the same length; this results in a distribution of chain lengths or molecular weights

    MOLECULAR WEIGHT
    A weight-average molecular weight is based on the weight fraction of molecules within the various size ranges

    MOLECULAR WEIGHT
    Thus, the same polymer material can have quite different properties if it is produced with a different molecular weight

    Linear
    Branched

    Crosslinked Network

    MOLECULAR CONFIGURATION

    Head to tail configuration

    Head to head configuration

    MOLECULAR CONFIGURATION

    Stereoisomerism
    isotactic configuration

    syndiotactic configuration

    atactic configuration

    MOLECULAR CONFIGURATION
    cis (structure) trans (structure)

    THERMOPLASTIC &THERMOSETTING POLYMERS


    THERMOPLASTIC

    Polyethylene Polystyrene poly(ethylene terephthalate) poly(vinyl chloride)


    vulcanized rubbers Epoxies phenolics polyester resins

    THERMOSETTING

    COPOLYMERS
    Random Copolymer
    Alternating Copolymer

    Block Copolymer

    Graft Copolymer

    POLYMER CRYSTALLINITY
    Arrangement of molecular chains in a unit cell for polyethylene

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