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This chapter is focused on the brief review of general aspects of polymer science and some important molecular theories related with polymer rheology. This chapter must be necessary for the readers who have weak basis of polymer science, while it can be omitted by polymer scientists and engineers. The first three sections describe polymer structure and the basics of polymer identification. The last section addresses molecular and phenomenological theory of rubber elasticity. The last section demands the knowledge of Chaps. 2 and 3. Further study is available in Strobl (The Physics of Polymers, 2nd edn. Springer, Berlin, 1997), Ward and Sweeney (An Introduction to Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers, 2nd edn. Wiley, New York, 2004), Sperling (Introduction to Physical Polymer Science, 4th edn. Wiley Interscience, New York, 2006), and Rubinstein and Colby (Polymer Physics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003).
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Cho, K.S. (2016). Polymer Physics. In: Viscoelasticity of Polymers. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 241. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7564-9_4
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