<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Now extensively updated, <B> <I>Polymer Science & Technology, Third Edition</I> </B> offers easy-to-read coverage of all of the field’s fundamentals, from core principles to the latest advances in synthetic and physical polymer chemistry and the newest applications.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This edition is designed to serve equally well as a tutorial for graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level students and as a reference for practicing scientists and engineers. Extensive new coverage in this edition includes:</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">· The use of ionic liquids</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">· Recent advances in nano polymer science</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">· New alternative energy applications, including polymers in fuel cell membranes and organic solar cells</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">· New medical/bioengineering applications, including polymers as scaffolds in tissue engineering</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">· A completely new chapter introducing computational polymer science, with coverage of advanced molecular simulations and artificial neural networks</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This edition also contains a greatly expanded and significantly updated collection of example and exercise problems.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Third Edition’s comprehensive coverage also includes: properties of polymers in solutions and in the melt, rubber, and solid states; discussions of all important categories of plastics; and much more. Example calculations are presented throughout.</P>