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Polymers and Polymer Precursor Characterization

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Abstract

A polymer may be defined as a chainlike molecule consisting of a large number of relatively simple structural repeating units. There is no fixed lower limit defining the number of repeat units for a molecule to be regarded as polymeric. However polymers usually have molecular weights (MW) greater than about 5000 g/mol or an average of more than 100 repeat units per molecule; and unlike low MW compounds, polymers consist of a distribution of chainlike molecules of differing MW’s. Generally the repeat units are held together by covalent chemical bonds in the form of linear or branched open-chain molecules or three-dimensional networks.

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Hagnauer, G.L. (1986). Polymers and Polymer Precursor Characterization. In: McCauley, J.W., Weiss, V. (eds) Materials Characterization for Systems Performance and Reliability. Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference Proceedings, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2119-4_9

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