Plastic Material Science
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The official GTU curriculum for Plastic Material Science (subject code BE04023051) as prescribed for Plastic · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 31 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE04023051)Unit 1 Molecular weight
- Introduction- Concept of average molecular weight
- Number and weight average molecular weight
- molecular weight & Degree of polymerization
- Significance of polymer molecular weight
- Calculations related to number average
- weight average molecular weight
Unit 2 Glass transition temp. (Tg)
- Introduction of Tg, Glassy solids & Glass transition
- Transition & Associated properties
- Factors influencing the Tg
- Molecular weight & Tg, plasticizers & Tg.
- Tg. of copolymers-Tm & Tg.-Importance of Tg
Unit 3 Crystallinity in polymers
- crystalline solids and their behaviour towards X-rays
- degree of crystallinity
- polymer crystallization
- Structural regularity & crystallisability
- factors affecting crystallisability
- Crystallization and melting
- crystal formation
- Effect of crystallinity on properties of polymers
Unit 4 Molecular weight determination
- End Group Analysis
- Membrane Osmometery
- Vapor Phase Osmometry
- Light Scattering
- Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) / Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
Unit 5 Polymer Solutions
- Introduction to Polymer Solutions
- The process of polymer dissolution
- Types and Behavior of Polymer Solutions
- Good solvent
- Poor solvent and Theta Solvent
- Solubility Parameters
- Solution Viscosity
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