The Polymer Age

Year Published: 1980

Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: Produced by the BBC for the British Open University A detailed study of two of the most successful synthetic rubbers, styrene butadiene random copolymer, which is used extensively in tire manufacture, and styrene butadiene styrene block copolymer. Includes a review of the two modes of polymerization, chain growth and step growth, and illustrates them with two examples, the synthesis of polyethene and nylon 6-6. From the Organic Chemistry series


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