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Physical Polymer. B.Pourabbas Faculty of Polymer Eng. Sahand University of Tech. pourabas@sut.ac.ir. What We Study?. Physical Aspects of the Chain Properties: Such as: Thermal Behavior: Melting, Tg , Other transitions and so on. What We Study?. Solubility
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Physical Polymer B.Pourabbas Faculty of Polymer Eng. Sahand University of Tech. pourabas@sut.ac.ir
What We Study? • Physical Aspects of the Chain Properties: • Such as: • Thermal Behavior: • Melting, • Tg, • Other transitions and so on.
What We Study? • Solubility • The solvent-polymer interactions • The effect of conditions: temperature and pressure Chain structure and so on
What We Study? • Surface and interface properties • Surface dynamics • Surface energies
What We Study? • Mechanical Properties • Rubber Elasticity • Rubber-glass transitions • Yielding • Viscoelasticity
What We Study? • The basic concepts and features which the physical properties themselves depends on. • Chain Structure • Liner • Branched • Cross-linked • Co-polymer • Chain Configuration • Chemistry • Crystalinity
What We Study? • The size of the chains • Statistically defined molecular weights • Width of polydispersity
What We Study? • The methods for measurement of the properties: • Chemical Methods: • Elemental Analysis • Functional Group Analysis • Selective Degradation
What We Study? • Physical Methods: • NMR • IR & Raman • UV-visible • XPS • XRD
Where From We Study? • Introduction to PHYSICAL POLYMER SCIENCE; By: Sperling (pdf file is available)
Where From We Study? 2. Introduction to Polymer Physics
Where From We Study? 3. Polymer Physics
Where From We Study? 4. Polymer Physics
Your Class Activities • Being in the class • Homeworks • Questions planed • Projects and presentations • Mid-Term exams (Several) • Final Exam
Chain Configuration • Polymer chains have three basic properties • The Molecular Weight, • The conformation of the chain in the space, • The configuration of the chain (microstructures),
Examples of Configurations and Conformations • Head to tail and head to head configuration • Trans-Gauche Conformation
Physical Methods of Determining Polymer Chain Microstructure
Chiral Center isotactic syndiotactic atactic Stereo Chemistry of Repeating Units • Chiral Centers • Tacticity in Polymers • Optical Isomerism • Geometric Isomerism • Substitutional Isomerism
Common Types of Copolymers • Unspecified Copolymers • Statistical Copolymers • Random Copolymers • Alternating Copolymers • Periodic Copolymers
Multi Component Polymers • Block Copolymers • Graft Copolymers • AB-Cross-Linked Copolymers • Interpenetrating Polymer Networks
Questions. • Fractal! What is fractal nature. Why polymer chains are fractal in dimension?