Introduction to Polymer Science
Prof. Greg Beaucage
Chemical and Materials Engineering
492 Rhodes Hall
513 556 3063
beaucag@uc.edu
Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-5:00 Rievschl 616B
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9:00-10:00
Evaluations
Autumn
2005
UC Materials Engineering Polymer/Plastics Course Sequence for Undergraduates
2005: Quiz
1; Quiz 2; Quiz 3; Quiz 4; Quiz 5; Quiz 6; Quiz 7; Quiz 8; Quiz 9; (All 9 in one
pdf); Final
Exam
2008: Quiz
1; Quiz
2; Quiz
3; Quiz 4;
Quiz
5; Quiz
6; Quiz
7; (All 7 in
one pdf); Final
Exam
2009: Quiz
1; Quiz
2; Quiz
3; Quiz
4; Quiz 5;
Quiz
6;
Quiz
7;
Quiz
8;
Quiz9;
(All 9 in one pdf);
Final
Exam
2010: Quiz1;
Quiz
2; Quiz
3; Quiz
4; Quiz
5; Quiz
6; Quiz
7; Quiz
8; Final
Exam
(TUESDAY, JUNE
8, 10 AM, 513 RHODES)
FINAL WILL BE 3 QUIZ
LENGTH and will be weighted as 3 quizzes in the final grade
Example
metallocene question
Example
copolymer
and blends questions
Quiz Replacement Projects:
Essay
for
Quiz
1
2008
What you
should turn in for a program
Project
0.1
Computer
program
to
use
time-temperature
superposition
to
shift
DMA
data
Project
I.1: Computer Simulation of Chain Dynamic Equilibrium State (3 quiz)
Monte
Carlo
Project
I.2:
5
Page
Report
on
Polymer
Nobel
Laureate
(1
quiz)
Project
I.3:
Computer
program
to
calculate
n1,n2,n3,n4,mw,mz,PDI
and
s
(1.5 quiz)
Project
I.4: 6 Page Report on Determination of Molecular Weight (1 quiz)
Modeling of
Polymerization.pdf
Project II.1: Report on
Industrial Synthesis of Nylon. (1 quiz)
Project II.2:
Program to Simulate Step-Polymerization. (1.5 quiz)
Project II.3: Report on
PET Polymerization and Depolymerization (1 quiz) Nov. 1 Tuesday
Project II.4:
Program to Simulate Percolation (1.5 quiz) Nov. 3 Thursday
Project II.5: Report on
Step Growth Polymerization (1 quiz) Nov. 8 Tuesday
Project II.6: Report on
AIChE talk or Session (1.5 quiz) 2'nd to last week of classes
Project II.7: Report on
Reaction Rate Equations (1 quiz) Nov. 15 Tuesday
Project II.8: Report on
Free Radicals (1 quiz) Nov. 22 Tuesday
Project II.9: Program on copolymerization reaction
rates.
Project II.10: Report on
Liquid Crystals (1 quiz). Dec 1 Thursday Case
Text Book (from Tony S.)
Project II.11: Report
on Liquid/Liquid Phase Separation in Polymers (1 quiz). Dec 6
Tuesday (at final).
CITATION INDEX TO FIND PAPERS USE GENERAL SEARCH
Quiz
6 2010 replacement report.
Quiz
5 Replacement Paper 2010
Syllabus:
I. What is a
"polymer"? (Stevens Chapter 3)
(Random
Walk
Generator,
Manias
Penn
State)
Bubbles; GPC
; SEC
; HPLC
Demonstration 1 Rubber Balls and Happy and Sad Balls
II. a) Chemical
Structure of Polymers,
Tables of Polymer
Structure: Sperling,
My List, WikiTacticitiy
Classification
of
Polymers
Elmhurst
College
Classification
MacroGaleriawhatever
And the uses tossed around
IUPAC
Classification Document for Polymers (PDF File)
Polyethylene, Polypropylene
Plasticpedia
Poiseuille
Equation; Mark-Houwink
Equation; Viscosity
Average Molecular Weight
b) Classificiation of
Polymerization Reactions Chain vs
Step Rochester My Notes Chain vs Step
Modeling of
Polymerization
i) Step Growth
Polymerization (Molecular
Weight
Distributions
in
Step
Growth,
Manias
Penn
State), Carothers
the
Father
of
Step-Growth
Derivation
of
the
Carothers
Equation
Mn
=
M0
/(1-p)
Nylon Rope Trick Video
(RPI), Nylon Synthesis
(USM), Nylon
Rope
Diffraction ,
Nylon Rope UMN Safety
Molecular
Weight For Step Growth, Macosko/Miller1.pdf,
Macosko/Miller2.pdf, Percolation
simulation
Glyptal Synthesis, Styrene and
Glyptal Synthesis pdf, My Glyptal Notes
Gelation Notes Tirrell
(Macosko/Miller1.pdf, Macosko/Miller2.pdf)
PVA
Gellation .pdf
Branching
and
Topology
(BU
Branching)
Patterns in Nature (Boston University Software),
BU Web Course
Polycarbonate USM
SuperAbsorbent.doc, Swelling
of
Gels, Flory
Gel Plot,
Percolation Cambridge University, Fermi
Paradox,
Percolation
Physics, Java
Applet
Sol-Gel
Synthesis, TEOS
Solubility, SolGel
Mauritz
Site,
SolGel.doc For Zeolites, Silicones USM,
Odian PolySilicones, Aerogel (Wiki), Aerogel
Movie (yellow and blue are due to 1/l^6
Rayleigh Scattering law similar to
sunset
and
the
blue
sky),
Wiki
Supercritical
Extraction, Wiki
Silly
Putty, STARDUST,
Flame
Aerogel
Pictures
PDMS
Silly Putty Synthesis and Patent _
Polyurethane Synthesis, Polyurethanes
(nasty things),
Urethane Dissertation VT, Polyimides,
Epoxy,
Joe
Greene
Composite
Chemistry
Polyurethane
AB
solution
Video_ , larger
scale
Polyurethane
URochester, Large-Scale
Polyurethane
Demonstration, Reaction
Injection Molding (RIM), Stevens Spandex, Memory Foam, more
Good Web Page for
Polyurethane,Urea, and Polymer Chemistry in general mst
WikiEpoxy, Composite
Chemistry, Stevens
Epoxy
and
Polysulfone, Rochester
Epoxy
Phenol-Formaldehyde
Procedure, Phenol-Formaldehyde,
Phenol-Formaldehyde
Synthesis
Lab, Pink
color of
phenol formaldehyde, Bakelite Paper Wilson
& Peterson(J. Chem. Educ. 55 652 1978), Chemical
Demonstrations
A
Handbook
for
Teachers
of
Chemistry
Vol
1
Shakhashiri,
M. P. Stevens
PolymChem, Rochester
Phenol-Formaldehyde
Polyimide USM, Polyimide
and
others
URochester/Kodak
ii) Chain
Growth
Polymerization, Lenz9.html,
Lenz9.pdf
ChainGrowthPlots, Order
of
Reaction,
Order/Rate Waterloo,
Rate of Reaction,
(Not Equilibrium
Constant, or
java thing),
Stoichiometry (UT Dallas)
Rate Constants (Arrhenius), Boltzmann
Distribution (Boltzmann),
Eyring Rate Theory (Regensburg),
pdf
from
USF (Eyring),
ASU Reaction Rates Bio
Free
Radical Polymerization Lenz11.html,
Lenz11.pdf, What
is
a
Free
Radical biology,
UK
Chemistry
good (Clarson's School)
*Bulk
Polymerization of Styrene.pdf
Free Radical Reaction
(Kinetic Chain Length).html, Lab 1.pdf
from Istanbul,
Other Istanbul Labs
in Polymer Synthesis.zip 1.8 Mb
Kinetic
Chain
Length
UMRolla,
*Solution
Polymerization
of
Acrylamide
(Soft
Contact
Lenses/GEP
Gel), Aqueous
Solution
Polymerization
Istambul
Lab
2.html, Lab
2.pdf
*Emulsion
Polymerization
of
Styrene.pdf
Emulsion
Polymerization Istambul Lab 3.html, Lab 3.pdf, More on Micelles, Smith-Ewart
Kinetics umr,
Lehigh
Emulsion
Institute, WikiEmulsionPolymerization
Complicated
Emulsion
Page, Odian
Emulsion.pdf
*Suspension
Polymerization
of
Styrene.pdf, Suspension
Polymerization
Istambul
Lab
4.html,
Lab 4.pdf
Ionic
Polymerization: Rochester
Ionic vs Free Radical, Cationic
Rochester, Anionic
Rochester
Stereoregular
Cationic Lenz, Chain
Transfer
In
Cationic
Odian,
Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions and Blends, Phase
Diagram PVME/Water (Eric Nies Endhoven 2002)
*Anionic Polymerization of
Styrene (USM), Living
Polymerization.pdf Istambul , StereoChemistry, WikiLivingPolymerization,
Anionic Polymerization Video
(RPI),
UMass.pdf,
Cationic Lab SMiss, Anionic Lab SMiss, WikiAnionicPolymerization,
*Cationic Polymerization of
Styrene
*ATRP
Polyacrylamide.pdf, Atom Transfer
Radical Polymerization, WikiATRP,
Sandip Talk on ATRP (2010)
Ring Opening
Polymerization, Rochester
Notes 1, Rochester
Notes 2, Rochester
Notes 3, Ring
Opening (SMiss), Siloxane
S
Miss
Heterogeneous
Catalysis for Chain Growth Polymerization (In
depth
UBC
Wassell
Heterogeneous
Catalysis)
Ziegler-Natta
Catalysts Rochester, Ziegler_Natta
SMiss, UBC
Wassell, Ziegler-Natta
Wiki, Ziegler
Natta
Heterogenous
system
paper, Beta-Hydride
Elimination
Termination
Metallocene Polymerization
SMiss, Metallocene
Wiki, Ferrocene
Wiki
Supported Oxide Catalysts,
Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Catalysis In General
Methasesis Polymerization Grubbs
and Schrock Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry 10/2005!!!
Synthesis of Industrial
Polymers,
Photoresist/Microelectronics Polymer Chemistry
Copolymer
Composition
Manias
Penn
State, Tirrell/McCarthy
Monomer
Reactivity/Copolymers, copolymer
calculator, copolymer
pdf
Polymers On
Ceramics
Flory
Huggins
Equation
Manias
Penn
State, Flory
Huggins
NCSU, Derivatives
of
FH, Flory
Huggins
Equation Properties, FH
versus
N, UK
Phase
Diagrams,
Morphology
of
Phase Separation FH, Spinodal Movie,
FH
N=1
vs Chi 0 to 4, FH
N=1
Chi = 2.5, Chi
2.5
vary N, Chi
0
vary N, Sheffield
Notes
On all of this
PVME/Water Phase Diagram
Waste Plastics to Diesel: Swiss, British, Australian
Reading List:
Robert W. Lenz, Organic Chemistry of Synthetic High Polymers,
Interscience
Publishers,
NYNY
1967
(This
is
an
indispensable
book
that
tells
you how to make almost any polymer despite the publication
date.) If you want to make a polymer this is the first (and
usually the only) place to look.) Like most classic books it
seems to foresee the important areas of the field even 40 years
later!! All other texts on polymer chemistry are basically copies
of this book.
Paul Flory Polymer Chemistry By the nobel laureate in
polymer chemistry this is best known for the physical chemistry parts
such as the Flory-Huggins theory and Flory-Rehner Elasticity theory,
Flory-Fox glass transition theory, and Flory (everything else
about polymers theories) This is the bible of polymer
science. It contains some useful polymer chemistry. All general
polymer science books published after this were copies of this book.
Paul Heimenz Polymer Chemistry and Colloid Science
Odian Principles of Polymerization
Malcom
Stevens Polymer Chemistry an Introduction (This is a pretty
good introductory synthetic book.)
Gert Strobl Polymer Science
Young Mechanical Properties of Polymers
Joel Fried Polymer Science for Chemical Engineers
L.H. Sperling, Intro. to Physical Polymer Science (Eng. Lib. Reserve)
Young RJ & Lovell PA Introduction
to
Polymers,
2'nd
edition Chapmann & Hall Publishers (1991).
Recent issues of Polymer, Journal of Polymer Science Polymer Physics,
Macromolecules, Langmuir, European Polymer Journal, Journal of Applied
Polymer Science, SPE Journal, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of
Physical Chemistry, Select issues of MRS Bulletin, Science, Nature,
Nature Materials.
Web Sites of General Interest
UMN
Chemistry Department Demos
Organic Chemistry,
Minimize
Molecular Structural Energies
CaseWestern
Textbook
on
Polymers
and
Liquid
Crystals,
Kevlar
some
acadamy
in
NC
UWaterlooLabCourse
Intro
To
Polymers
Berkley
Macrogaleria (Southern
Mississippi)
Polymer
Chemistry University of Rochester/Kodak
Boston University/NSF Software
BU Web Course
Intro
to
Polymers
Case/some interesting java applets
Intro to Polymers and
Coatings UPenn
General Synthetic
Chemistry (Meta-Synthesis.com Mark R. Leach)
Radical
Chemistry
York
Andrew
Parsons
HMM Low Level
General Science (Steve is a strange person I would imagine)
Michigan State
University Site for Organic Chemistry
Chemistry 381 mst
Whole Grades Only, Grading: 100-90.0 A; 89.9-80.0 B; 79.9-70.0 C; 69.9-60.0 D
Grading will involve 9 quizzes given during the last half hour of Monday's class including the first Monday and a mandatory and comprehensive final exam that is of the length and value of 3 weekly quizzes which will be given during finals week on the assigned day.
In addition to the weekly quizzes there will be opportunities to replace quiz grades with projects outside of class. There will be no make-up quizzes so that if a quiz is missed an outside project will be required to replace a 0 grade. Due dates will be assigned to the outside projects. Some of the outside projects will have a value greater than one quiz.