An Introduction to Macromolecules

Mandelkern L. Mandelkern Leo

ISBN 10: 0387907963 / ISBN 13: 9780387907963

Editore: Springer, 1983

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• Titolo: An Introduction to Macromolecules
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387907963
• ISBN 13: 9780387907963
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Major advances have also been made in biophysics and in molecular biology, as well as in our understanding of natural processes on a molecular level. It is my hope that this new edition will still have a widespread appeal to students in all of the natural sciences whatever their major interest.

Contenuti

1. Introduction.- 2. Structural Features and Preparation.- Classification and Definition.- Chemical Repeating Units.- Copolymers.- Preparation.- Branching, Cross-Linking, and Network Formation.- 3. Chain Structure.- Internal Rotation.- Disordered Chain Conformation.- Ordered Conformations.- 4. Rubbers and Glasses.- Rubbers—Introduction.- Structural Basis for Rubber Elasticity.- Glass Formation.- Chemical Structure and Glass Formation.- Plasticizers.- 5. Crystalline Polymers and Fibers.- Crystal Structures.- Crystallization Process.- Undeformed Crystallization—Morphology and Properties.- Melting Process—Undeformed Crystallization.- Fibers.- Mechanochemistry.- 6. Macromolecules of Biological Importance.- Polypeptides.- Conformational Properties of Polypeptides.- Proteins—General.- Fibrous Proteins.- Globular Proteins.- Nucleic Acids—General.- Deoxyribonucleic Acid—DNA.- Ribonucleic Acids—RNA.- Epilogue: Macromolecules and Man.- Annotated Bibliography.