Introduction and applications of polymers, molecular weight distributions, various experimental methods (GPC/SEC, solution viscosity, VPO, light scattering) to determine relative and absolute molecular weight distributions, chain growth and step growth mechanisms and kinetics, ionic polymerization, living polymerization, stereochemistry of polymers, free radical copolymerization (random, block, alternate and graft copolymers), kinetics and mechanisms of free radical copolymerization, polymerization conditions and polymer reactions, thermal, mechanical and solution properties of polymers, thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers, conducting polymers, branched polymers (star, dendritic and hyperbranched polymers).

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