Richard G. Jones

9: Definitions of Terms Related to Polymer Blends, Composites, and Multiphase Polymeric Materials (2004)

The document defines the terms most commonly encountered in the field of polymer blends and composites. The scope has been limited to mixtures in which the components differ in chemical composition or molar mass and in which the continuous phase is polymeric. Incidental thermodynamic descriptions are mainly limited to binary mixtures although, in principle, they could be generalized to multicomponent mixtures. The document is organized into three sections. The first defines terms basic to the description of polymer mixtures. The second defines terms commonly encountered in descriptions of phase domain behavior of polymer mixtures. The third defines terms commonly encountered in the descriptions of the morphologies of phase-separated polymer mixtures. Reproduced from: Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 76, No. 11, pp. 1985–2007, 2004.

12: Definitions of Terms Relating to Reactions of Polymers and to Functional Polymeric Materials (2003)

The document defines the terms most commonly encountered in the field of polymer reactions and functional polymers. The scope has been limited to terms that are specific to polymer systems. The document is organized into three sections. The first defines the terms relating to reactions of polymers. Names of individual chemical reactions are omitted from the document, even in cases where the reactions are important in the field of polymer reactions. The second section defines the terms relating to polymer reactants and reactive polymeric materials. The third section defines the terms describing functional polymeric materials.

3: Definitions of Terms Relating to Individual Macromolecules, Their Assemblies, and Dilute Polymer Solutions (1988)

This document is part of a series published by the Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature dealing with definitions for the important terms in polymer science [1-3]. It is also the first of several documents that will be published dealing specifically with physicochemical terminology in the polymer field. The recommendations presented here deal with such key areas of the physical chemistry of macromolecules as individual macromolecules, their assemblies and dilute polymer solutions; they include recommended terminology for molecular weight, molecular-weight averages, distribution functions, radius of gyration, the Flory-Huggins theory, viscosity of solutions, scattering of radiation by polymers, fractionation, etc. The readers attention is especially directed to the new terms uniform polymer and nonuniform polymer which denote polymers composed of molecules that are uniform or nonuniform, respectively, with respect to relative molecular mass and constitution. These terms replaced the widely used, but non-descriptive and self-contradictory terms monodisperse polymer and polydisperse polymer.

5: Definitions Relating to Stereochemically Asymmetric Polymerizations (2002)

Asymmetric polymerization has been the interest of many academic and industrial polymer scientists but no reference has been made by IUPAC explicitly to definitions of reactions involving the asymmetric synthesis of polymers. Hence, this document presents definitions concerned with asymmetric and related polymerizations with examples included to clarify the meaning of the definitions. Asymmetric polymerizations embrace two main categories, asymmetric chirogenic polymerizations and asymmetric enantiomer-differentiating polymerizations.