Unit · year 4
CU-404 · Polymer & Soft Matter Chemistry
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The chemistry and physics of macromolecules and soft materials.
Lectures
| L01 | Macromolecules: Scale Changes Everything — |
| L02 | Classification of Polymers — |
| L03 | Degree of Polymerisation |
| L04 | Number- and Weight-Average Molar Mass |
| L05 | Polydispersity |
| L06 | Measuring Polymer Molar Mass |
| L07 | Step-Growth Polymerisation |
| L08 | The Carothers Equation and Conversion |
| L09 | Chain-Growth Polymerisation |
| L10 | Free-Radical Polymerisation Kinetics |
| L11 | Ionic and Living Polymerisation |
| L12 | Copolymers and Reactivity Ratios |
| L13 | Tacticity and Stereochemical Control — |
| L14 | Chain Conformation and the Random Coil — |
| L15 | Polymer Solutions and Theta Conditions |
| L16 | Flory–Huggins Theory |
| L17 | The Interaction Parameter χ |
| L18 | Phase Behaviour and Miscibility |
| L19 | Crystallinity in Polymers — |
| L20 | The Glass Transition |
| L21 | Factors Affecting Tg |
| L22 | Free Volume and the WLF Equation |
| L23 | Viscoelasticity and Mechanical Behaviour |
| L24 | Colloids, Surfactants, and Self-Assembly — |
| L25 | Synthesis: From Monomer to Material |