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This second edition of An Introduction to Plastics is the answer to manifold requests for an updated version by the readership. Since publication of the first edition in 1993, the field of plastics has seen tremendous development. Their manufacture and properties are discussed and correlated to the molecular and supermolecular properties of polymers. The contents have been thoroughly revised, restructured and enlarged. Several topics such as polymer composites and mixtures, morphology, flow properties and processing have been given more space, and chapters on electrical conductivity and non-linear optical properties have been newly added. Reviews of the first edition: ""This book presents a precise, yet non-mathematical introduction to plastics, their raw materials, syntheses, properties and applications."" (B. Sillion, Revue de l'Institut Francais du Petrole) ""The volume is excellently written, with a simple, straightforward and comprehensive index. It provides an overview of all plastics, including raw materials: manufacture, structure, processing, properties and, of course, applications"" (D.W. Taylor and J.F. Kennedy, Polymer International) ""This book has all the earmarks of becoming a guide to or even a reference book for polymers in structural applications"" (Willi Kreuder, Acta Polymerica)

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This book presents a precise, yet non-mathematical introduction to plastics, their raw materials, syntheses, properties and applications. Revue de l'Institut Francais du PA (c)trole The volume is excellently written, with a simple, straightforward and comprehensive index. It provides an overview of all plastics, including raw materials: manufacture, structure, processing, properties and, of course, applications. Polymer International This book has all the earmarks of becoming a guide to or even a reference book for polymers in structural applications. Acta Polymerica For somebody teaching polymer science to chemists as well as to engineers, this book is an extremely valuable addition to the bookshelf. Similarly, if you are a chemist and you are confronted with the materials aspects - processing as well as properties - so that you have to interact with the engineers, this book will help you to understand and to solve the problems that arise. However, it is especially students studying chemical and process engineering and coming to the polymer materials part of the course who will be attracted by the comprehensive contents of this introduction to plastics! In summary, An Introduction to Plastics is an excellent and fairly comprehensive, but nevertheless compact, textbook. It can be recommended for engineers and materials scientists in academia, and especially in industry, who have to deal with the material properties and processing aspects of polymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2005, Vol. 44, No. 6 Der Autor gibt eine allgemeinverstAndliche EinfA1/4hrung in die wissenschaftlichen und technischen Begriffe der Kunststoffe, ihre Eigenschaften und Anwendungen. ... Der Stoff wird durch viele Beispiele und durch praktische Hinweise anschaulich dargestellt. ... Die StArken des Buches liegen in einer systematischen Darstellung aller Aspekte der Kunststoffe. Zu jedem Abschnitt findet man Hinweise auf grundlegende und weiterfA1/4hrende Literatur, durch deren Studium die dargestellten ZusammenhAnge nach Belieben vertieft werden kAnnen W. Mielke, Materials and Corrosion, 10/2004 FA1/4r Lehrende der Polymerwissenschaften fA1/4r Chemiker und Ingenieure ist dieses Buch AuA erst wertvoll und sollte im Regal nicht fehlen. Auch Chemikern, die in ihrem Aufgabenfeld mit den Materialeigenschaften von Kunststoffen konfrontiert sind, kann dieses Buch als Hilfe dienen, insbesondere in der Kommunikation mit Ingenieuren. Vor allem aber Studenten des Chemieingenieurwesens, der Werkstoffwissenschaften oder der Verfahrenstechnik mit Schwerpunkt Polymerwerkstoffe werden das Buch aufgrund des umfassenden Inhalts und der guten Zusammenstellung sehr schAtzen... Zusammenfassend ist An Introduction to Plastics ein umfassendes, aber doch kompakt dargestelltes Lehrbuch, das allen Ingenieuren und Materialwissenschaftlern im Studium und in der industriellen Forschung, die sich mit den Eigenschaften und der Verarbeitung von Kunststoffen befassen, empfohlen werden kann. Brigitte Voit, Leibniz-Institut fA1/4r Polymerforschung Dresden e. V., Angewandte Chemie, 2. Februarheft 2005-117/6 + International Edition, 2nd February Issue 2005-44/6

This book presents a precise, yet non-mathematical introduction to plastics, their raw materials, syntheses, properties and applications. Revue de l'Institut Francais du Petrole The volume is excellently written, with a simple, straightforward and comprehensive index. It provides an overview of all plastics, including raw materials: manufacture, structure, processing, properties and, of course, applications. Polymer International This book has all the earmarks of becoming a guide to or even a reference book for polymers in structural applications. Acta Polymerica For somebody teaching polymer science to chemists as well as to engineers, this book is an extremely valuable addition to the bookshelf. Similarly, if you are a chemist and you are confronted with the materials aspects - processing as well as properties - so that you have to interact with the engineers, this book will help you to understand and to solve the problems that arise. However, it is especially students studying chemical and process engineering and coming to the polymer materials part of the course who will be attracted by the comprehensive contents of this introduction to plastics! In summary, An Introduction to Plastics is an excellent and fairly comprehensive, but nevertheless compact, textbook. It can be recommended for engineers and materials scientists in academia, and especially in industry, who have to deal with the material properties and processing aspects of polymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2005, Vol. 44, No. 6

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Elias was born in 1928. He studied at the Technical University of Hanover, Germany, and received his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich in 1957. After habilitation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich) in 1961, he was appointed Senior Lecturer and later a professor of organic-chemical technology. In 1971, he became founding president of and professor of Polymer Science at the Michigan Molecular Institute (MMI) in Midland, Michigan. During these years, he also worked as consultant to the polymer industry in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States and expert witness to companies and the court. He was an in-house consultant at the Dow Chemical Co., Midland (MI) (1983/84) and independent consultant between 1985 and 1993. He continues to teach at MMI. Professor Elias has published more than 200 scientific and technical papers and two patents on the synthesis characterization, structure, properties, and application of synthetic and biological polymers. His ten authored or edited books have been published in English, French, German, and/or Russian, one of these, a 4-volume work, in six invitation in fifteen countries and was a member of editorial boards of five polymer journals.

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