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May 19, 2024
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CHEM 710 Polymer Chemistry: Environmental and Biomedical Aspects Credit 3
Synthetic polymers have become an integral part of our lives and can be found in many everyday and advanced materials: rubber tires, bullet-proof vests, paints, fibers, contact lenses, drug delivery vehicles and many others. This course will cover the basics of polymer synthesis, including traditional polymerization techniques, such as free-radical and anionic chain polymerizations, and step-growth polymerization. Newer methods of polymer synthesis, such as ring-opening metathesis polymerization and living free-radical polymerizations will also be discussed. Fundamentals of structure and physical properties of polymers and methods of characterization will also be covered. For each type of polymers, the influence of toxic additives and impurities on environment will be discussed. In addition, such important topics as ecological aspects of polymer waste management, accidental and controlled polymer burning; fire retardants, replacing toxic plastics by similar nontoxic ones, biodegradable and biocompatible polymers will be discussed. The course is theoretical and meets two times per week for two academic hours lectures/discussions. The recommended text book is: Odian, Principles of Polymerization, Wiley, 4th ed., 2004. The course is Blackboard supported. The course is built in such a way that each common theoretical polymer topic is followed by the topic covering the environmental and/or biomedical aspect related to this theoretical topic. You are required to attend all lecture and discussion classes.
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 211, CHEM 213, CHEM 212, CHEM 214 (Please visit the undergraduate catalog to view their course descriptions)
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