Textbook: Recommended Textbooks:

1. "Polymer Science and Technology", Joel R. Fried, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1995).
2. "Fundamentals of Polymers", Anil Kumar and Rakesh K. Gupta. McGraw-Hill (1998).
3. "Fundamental Principles of Polymeric Materials", Stephen L. Rosen, 2nd Edition, Wiley John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1993).

Course Syllabus
1. Introduction: classification of polymers; properties of polymers; polymer structure, synthesis, applications of polymeric materials.

2. Bonding in polymers; conformation; crystallinity; melting temperature and glass transition temperature

3. Polymer synthesis and free-radical polymerization kinetics; polymerization processes: bulk solution, suspension, and emulsion polymerization.

4. Condensation polymerization: synthesis, kinetics, interfacial condensation.

5. Cationic and anionic polymerization.

6. Co-polymerization

7. Molecular weight distributions: theoretical principles and experimental methods.

8. Introduction to thermodynamics of polymer solutions.

9. Polymer processing: an overview of selected processing techniques.

10. Introduction to rheology of polymer solutions and melts.

11. Mechanical properties of polymeric materials: stress-strain behavior, testing and characterization of plastics.

12. Mechanical properties of reinforced plastics.

13.Biomedical Polymers: diffusion in polymers and controlled drug delivery; structural biomedical polymers; thermo- and electro- and chemo-mechanical response; polymeric implants. 

14. Polymers at solid surfaces: polymer adhesion; solid surface modification with polymers; biocompatible surfaces; polymer surfaces in microelectronics.