This course presents the mechanical, optical, and transport properties of polymers with respect to the underlying physics and physical chemistry of polymers in melt, solution, and solid state.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
611 years
Units & Quizzes
22
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Certificate of Completion
Topics include conformation and molecular dimensions of polymer chains in solutions, melts, blends, and block copolymers; an examination of the structure of glassy, crystalline, and rubbery elastic states of polymers; thermodynamics of polymer solutions, blends, crystallization; liquid crystallinity, microphase separation, and self-assembled organic-inorganic nanocomposites. Case studies include relationships between structure and function in technologically important polymeric systems
Course Currilcum
- Introduction; hard vs. soft solids; polymerization Unlimited
- Chains; thermodynamics of polymer solutions Unlimited
- Thermodynamics (cont.) Unlimited
- Polymer blends; viscosity; osmometry Unlimited
- Osmometry (cont.); SEC (size exclusion chromatography) and GPC (gel permeation chromatography) Unlimited
- Scattering; Zimm plots Unlimited
- Glass transition temperature Tg Unlimited
- Diffusion of polymers; reptation; elasticity Unlimited
- Gels; Flory-Rehner theory Unlimited
- Self organization Unlimited
- Intermaterial dividing surface (IMDS); polymer-based photonics Unlimited
- Photonic crystals Unlimited
- Influence of chain architecture on microdomain characteristics Unlimited
- Block copolymer-homopolymer blends Unlimited
- Hierarchically ordered BCP-nanoparticle composites Unlimited
- Top down meets bottom up Unlimited
- Chain folding; polyethylene and nylon; spherulites Unlimited
- Mechanical properties; crazing; microframes and millitrusses Unlimited
- Mechanical properties (cont.) Unlimited
- Single wall and multi-wall nanotubes (SWNT, MWNT) Unlimited
- Electronic polymers Unlimited
- Polymer conductives; polypyrrole chains; optical interactions Unlimited
