Learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
isolate the key design features of a product which relate directly to the material(s) used in its constructionindicate how the properties of polymeric materials can be exploited by a product designerdescribe the role of rubber-toughening in improving the mechanical properties of polymersidentify the repeat units of particular polymers and specify the isomeric structures which can exist for those repeat unitsestimate the number- and weight-average molecular masses of polymer samples given the degree of polymerisation and mass fraction of chains present.OpenLearn - Introduction to polymers

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