A Laboratory Manual of Polymers provides meaningful, easy-to-do laboratory activities that will help students in understanding the basic principles of polymer synthesis, structure and functions. It is intended to enable the students prepare a variety of common polymers to investigate their properties as well as to discover their uses and applications. This book is intended to be used as a laboratory manual at the graduate and postgraduate levels in Materials Science as well as any polymer chemistry course. The book, divided in 4 main chapters, deals with: ¿ Different kinds of polymerization reactions as well as their kinetic aspects. ¿ Detailed spectral, thermal and morphological characterization of polymers. ¿ Identification of polymers with FT-IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR spectroscopies. ¿ Thermal characterization of polymers through DSC and TGA techniques. ¿ Structural characterization with XRD.

¿ Purification procedures of monomers and solvents. ¿ 26 experiments and general analytical techniques to characterize common polymers. The book will be useful to professionals in the production as well as R&D units of polymer industries.