What are core polymer chemistry and physics?

Abstract

Aside from making existing catalysts and polymerization conditions optimal, polymer chemists should focus on developing new catalysts, new synthetic methods, and new polymerization processes. An area that should be of particular interest is that of bio-catalysts and bio-synthesis because of the inevitable exhaustion of crude oils and natural gases on which the modern polymer industry has been built. For polymer physics, the focus should still lie in the development of novel methodologies to solve remaining fundamental problems that are related to polymer processes by concentrating on correlations between polymer properties and chain structures as well as process conditions. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.