- Docente: Loris Giorgini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Technologies for the Environment and Materials (cod. 8514)
Learning outcomes
The students will achieve basic knowledge of polymer science and will acquire the skills for synthesis and characterization of polymeric products.
Course contents
Basic knowledge of organic chemistry, general chemistry and physical chemistry
Introduction to macromolecular chemistry
Homopolymers and copolymers, configuration and
stereoregularity, macromolecules conformations, polymerization
process, molecular weight and molecular weight distribution,
structure - properties correlations
Step growth polymerization
Step growth reactions, experimental parameters effects on step
growth polymerization , examples of step growth polymerization
Chain polymerization
Radical polymerization, radical polymerization techniques,
cationic polymerization, anionic polymerization, Ziegler Natta
polymerization, Example of industrial polymerizations.
Copolymers
Copolymers classification, reactivity ratio definitions and their
effect on copolymer composition, copolymers synthesis
Polymer crystallinity
Crystallization from polymer melt, crystallization degree and its
experimental determination, polymer crystallization kinetic
Molecular weight
Determination of polymer molecular weight by colligative
properties, viscosimetry, size exclusion chromatography, other
methods for molecular weight determination
Glass transition temperature
Definition of glass transition, internal and external factors
influencing glass transition, glass transition determination
Recycle and reuse of Polymeric materials
Thermal and chemical degradation of polymers, depolymerization
techniques, polymer recycle, compatibilization,
thermovalorization
Biopolymers
In laboratory some experiences related to the Polymer Science will be carried out:
- Synthesis and characterization of polymers copolymers
- Polymeric materials identification
- Determination of phisico - chemical parameters of
polymers
Readings/Bibliography
Associazione Italiana di Scienza e Tecnologia delle Macromolecole,Fondamenti di Scienza dei Polimeri , Pacini editore (1998)
- Elisabetta Princi, Sintesi di Polimeri, Testi AIM, Edizioni Nuova Cultura (Roma) (2012)
- S. Bruckner, G. Allegra, M. Pegoraro, F.P. La Mantia, Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali Polimerici , Edises editore (2001)
Teaching methods
The institutional part of the course consists of classroom
lessons, resolution of numerical example relating to the
issues addressed and discussions with students.
The lab course, in addition to lectures is made of laboratory
experiments, that must be carried out by students.
Assessment methods
Assessment of the course will be via an oral exam.
During this test knowledge related to both the institutional and the laboratory part of the course will be verified. The content of specific reports done by the students and related to each of the 6 proposed laboratory experiences will be also taken into account.
Attend to the laboratory lessons is compulsory
Teaching tools
Lectures and exercises carried out in the classroom are integrated with practical activities in the chemical laboratory
Office hours
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