By Gary Patterson
This sequel to A Prehistory of Polymer technological know-how starts with the Faraday dialogue of 1935 on Polymerization. Patterson then examines the impressive upward push and institution of polymer technological know-how after 1935 from the viewpoint of the emergence of robust highbrow leaders. whereas sufficient biographical element is gifted to achieve an appreciation for the function performed via every one chief, the emphasis of this quantity is at the key options linked to every one person and the way the group embraced those leaders.
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Crystallization during processing by stretching amorphous films produces tough, stable sheets. The viscoelastic properties of plasticized polymers and polymer solutions are also discussed in detail. This introduces another major figure in polymer science: John D. Ferry (1912-2002). He took Stanford by storm and received both his degrees by the age of 22. He was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1946, ready to vigorously pursue his career in research. He was promoted to Full Professor the very next year!!!
He was a master of very many physical techniques. And, he was Professor of Organic Chemistry! The book contains a brief introduction to some physical techniques (and some that have rarely been discussed since), but the meat of the book is a thorough survey of all known polymers! Meyer was a champion of the view that all polyfunctional entities could be formed into macromolecules. It is hardly a surprise that he starts his survey of ‘‘inorganic’’ polymers with sulfur. While gaseous sulfur and ordinary crystalline yellow sulfur are composed of S8 rings, liquid sulfur is made up of a very large number of chains of different lengths as well as some rings.
O. Kraemer (1898-1943) of DuPont. The advances detailed above in the discussion of the work of Flory were yet many years away, but the worldwide community of interest in the viscosity of polymer solutions was hard at work! Two other dynamic experimental methods were discussed by Mark: diffusion and ultracentrifugation. These fields benefitted from the leadership of The Svedberg (1884-1971, Nobel 1926). While he was not primarily involved with the industrial polymer community, he was a strong supporter from the beginning and a good friend at all times.