- Docente: Luigi Angiolini
- Credits: 4
- SSD: CHIM/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Industrial Chemistry (cod. 0882)
Learning outcomes
The course gives knowledges concerning the main chemical procedures and instrumental techniques that are used to recognize the chemical structure and composition of synthetic polymers, to investigate their thermal behaviour in different conditions and the degradation processes operated by chemical and physical agents.
Course contents
Macromolecules: nomenclature, structure and characterization methods.
Chemical characterization of polymeric materials: elemental analysis, functional groups analysis, pyrolisis.
Structural characterization: IR and NMR spectroscopy. Spectra of industrial polymers.
Molecular characterization: gel permeation chromatography, viscosimetry, vapor pressure and membrane osmometry, light scattering, MALDI-TOF.
Thermal characterization: TGA, DSC and DTA.
Crystalline and amorphous polymers.
Oxidative, photochemical, thermal and mechanical degradation of polymers.
Additives for polymers. Antioxidants and UV stabilizers.Readings/Bibliography
AIM - Fondamenti di Scienza dei Polimeri, Pacini Editore, 2003, Pisa.
G. Allen, Comprehensive Polymer Science, Pergamon press, 1989.
T. R. Crompton, Practical Polymer Analysis, Plenum press, 1993, New York.
Teaching methods
The teaching activities are performed through lessons and visits to laboratories of instrumental analysis.
Assessment methods
The learning assessment is performed through a final oral examination aimed to check the acquired knowledges.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector. Pc presentations. Laboratory of instrumental analysis. Printed copies of presented topics are available to the students.
Office hours
See the website of Luigi Angiolini