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Polymer Science
Learning Objective
- A brief history of the polymers and their evolution
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Early evidence of the use of polymers in the form of rubber has been found in the excavations of the ancient Mayan civilization in Central America where children played with balls made from the rubber obtained from the rubber tree.
The synthetic polymers initially used were just modified forms of naturally occurring ones, such as cellulose. The polymers of styrene were first reported in 1839 and poly(ethylene glycol) and poly(ethylene succinate) were synthesized in 1860. Despite these advances, chemists believed that these large molecular weight substances were just aggregates of smaller molecules and had no idea regarding the ...
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