3.064 | Fall 2003 | Undergraduate

Polymer Engineering

Readings

Boyer, R. F. “Dependence of Mechanical Properties on Molecular Motion in Polymers.” Polymer Engineering and Science 8, no. 3 (July 1968): 161-185.

Fullerton, Rhonda, David Roylance, Ronald Allred, and Adra Acton. “Cure Analysis of Printed Wiring Boards Containing Reactive Adhesive Layers.” Polymer Engineering and Science 28, no. 6 (March 1988): 372-376.

Hargittai, István, Angiolina Comotti, and Magdolna Hargittai. “Centennial: Giulio Natta, Winner of the 1963 Chemistry Nobel Prize was First to Make Synthetic Stereoregular Polymers.” Chemical & Engineering News, February 10, 2003, 26-28.

Kiefer, David M. “The Madman Who Made Rubber Useful.” Chemical & Engineering News, August 12, 2002, 44-45. A review of The Goodyear Story: An Inventor’s Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly, by Richard Korman, Encounter Books, 2002.

Ko, Frank K., Sueo Kawabata, Mari Inoue, Masako Niwa, Stephen Fossey, and John W. Song. “Engineering Properties of Spider Silk.”

Ritter, Steve. “Erasers: Rubber ‘Graphite Grabbers’ are Simple but Indispensable Tools for Home and Office.” Chemical & Engineering News, December 16, 2002, 33.

Roylance, David. “Finite Element Analysis of Nonisothermal Reactive Flows.” (PDF)

Thayer, Ann. “Silly Putty.” Chemical & Engineering News, November 27, 2000, 27.

Vogel, Steven. “Nature’s Swell, But is it Worth Copying?” MRS Bulletin, June 2003, 404-408.

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