Composite Materials
About.com's comprehensive website includes much material of relevance to or incorporating polymer chemistry.

Plastics
This is About.com's plastics site, containing technical and marketing information for the plastics industry.

Building with Snakes
Adrian Rennie's article discusses the physics of long-chain molecules. He introduces polymers, discusses molecular structure, describes polymer motion and relaxation, and introduces mechanical properties.

Cellulose Polymers
Olympia Moy's research project includes the molecular structure of the polymer, shape and properties, comparison to starch, derivatives and uses, and bibliography.

Center for Polymer Studies
Boston University presents these research projects, patterns in nature Java simulations, The Dance of Chance science museum exhibit, Java virtual molecular dynamics laboratory, hands-on experiments, and fractal galleries.

Chem 381: Polymer and Coatings Science
These are detailed class notes for the University of Missouri-Rolla's course. They are peer-reviewed notes. The site includes alphabetized keyword search capability.

FiberSource Fibertutor
This site provides a history and overview of polymer science. Information on manufacturing, products, uses, care, maintenance, the environment, and health/safety is given.

Glossary of Basic Terms in Polymer Science
ETH Zurich hosts this excerpt from Pure Appl. Chem. 1996, 68, 2287 - 2311. These are the 1996 IUPAC recommendations.

Nylon Life Cycle
The invention, commercialization, growth, and maturation of the nylon industry are discussed.

Plastics: History, Types, Processing
This site introduces plastics, gives some general history and some Australian history, offers a test-your-knowledge quiz, discusses the five main types of plastics, and describes processing. Additional links are listed.

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