Polymer
noun
A large molecule that is made by connecting many smaller molecules together.
Plastics are made from polymers.
Often appears as...
- polymer chain
- polymer molecule
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Technical
noun
A type of chemical substance that is used in making plastics, paints, and other materials.
He's studying the properties of polymers in his chemistry class.
Often appears as...
- polymer structure
- polymer science
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Academic
noun
A large molecule that is made by connecting many smaller molecules together.
Plastics are made from polymers.
Often appears as...
- polymer chain
- polymer molecule
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of chemical substance that is used in making plastics, paints, and other materials.
He's studying the properties of polymers in his chemistry class.
Often appears as...
- polymer structure
- polymer science
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
The term 'polymer' is often used in science and engineering to discuss materials' properties.
The polymer's durability makes it ideal for automotive parts.
Pro Tip 2/3Building Block Analogy
Imagine polymers like LEGO bricks, connecting many small pieces to create a larger structure.
Each small molecule is like a LEGO piece in the polymer structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Monomer Link
A polymer is formed from monomers, which are the smaller molecules that link together.
Monomers combine in a pattern to form the polymer chain.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
The term 'polymer' is often used in science and engineering to discuss materials' properties.
The polymer's durability makes it ideal for automotive parts.
Pro Tip 2/3Building Block Analogy
Imagine polymers like LEGO bricks, connecting many small pieces to create a larger structure.
Each small molecule is like a LEGO piece in the polymer structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Monomer Link
A polymer is formed from monomers, which are the smaller molecules that link together.
Monomers combine in a pattern to form the polymer chain.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Context
The term 'polymer' is often used in science and engineering to discuss materials' properties.
The polymer's durability makes it ideal for automotive parts.
Pro Tip 2/3Building Block Analogy
Imagine polymers like LEGO bricks, connecting many small pieces to create a larger structure.
Each small molecule is like a LEGO piece in the polymer structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Monomer Link
A polymer is formed from monomers, which are the smaller molecules that link together.
Monomers combine in a pattern to form the polymer chain.
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Eben Bayer: Are...
we're getting incredible yield rates. Natural polymers, well ... I think that's what's most important, because these polymers have been tried and tested in our ecosystem for the last billion years, in everything from mushrooms to crustaceans. They're not going to clog up Earth's ecosystems. They work great. And while, today,
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What's in Conditioner? PIPE...
flyaways of the silicones in particular they form a thin oily film on the surface of your hair and yes that helps lubricate but it also reflects light which makes your hair shiny there are some other chemicals that are used to condition hair like some polymers but these are the most common and they're
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What's in Hand...
very similar to vitamin E are all pretty widely used in cosmetics as lubricants or thickeners or humectants which help retain water the gel is also easy usually if you see the word polymer in the ingredients list of a gel that polymer is what makes the gel the gel okay so we're left with isopropyl
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From DNA to Silly Putty,...
They're polymers. Polymers are such a big part of our lives that it's virtually impossible to imagine a world without them, but what the heck are they? Polymers are large molecules made of small units called monomers linked together like the railroad cars from a train.
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How to biohack your...
and then make those sequences on a DNA printer- yeah, that's a thing!- printing not with ink, or with a plastic polymer like in a 3D printer, but with those fundamental building blocks of life, with those A's and C's and T's and G's.
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A Rare Look at the...
polymers where I've been working for for twenty years with my wife Sheryl and that's where she has a long-term runtime project our site is deep in the interior of that National Park and it comprises the eight different habitats
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
elements in the periodic table because we can life uses a safe subset in fact most materials on this planet are made with six elements and when those elements are put into materials into polymers what are like our plastics long
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Nina Jablonski breaks...
and myriad other important functions in our bodies. So, living at the equator, we got lots and lots of ultraviolet radiation and the melanin -- this wonderful, complex, ancient polymer compound in our skin --
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Meet the microbes that...
a high temperature that can weaken PET polymers and make them digestible. With the help of these and other tiny diehards, the future of PET recycling looks promising. But PET is just one type of plastic.
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A new superweapon in the...
nanometers-thin blanket of siRNA. This is our gene blocker. Because siRNA is strongly negatively charged, we can protect it with a nice, protective layer of positively charged polymer.
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Eben Bayer: Are...
we're getting incredible yield rates. Natural polymers, well ... I think that's what's most important, because these polymers have been tried and tested in our ecosystem for the last billion years, in everything from mushrooms to crustaceans. They're not going to clog up Earth's ecosystems. They work great. And while, today,
Video examples
What's in Conditioner? PIPE...
flyaways of the silicones in particular they form a thin oily film on the surface of your hair and yes that helps lubricate but it also reflects light which makes your hair shiny there are some other chemicals that are used to condition hair like some polymers but these are the most common and they're
Video examples
What's in Hand...
very similar to vitamin E are all pretty widely used in cosmetics as lubricants or thickeners or humectants which help retain water the gel is also easy usually if you see the word polymer in the ingredients list of a gel that polymer is what makes the gel the gel okay so we're left with isopropyl
Video examples
From DNA to Silly Putty,...
They're polymers. Polymers are such a big part of our lives that it's virtually impossible to imagine a world without them, but what the heck are they? Polymers are large molecules made of small units called monomers linked together like the railroad cars from a train.
Video examples
How to biohack your...
and then make those sequences on a DNA printer- yeah, that's a thing!- printing not with ink, or with a plastic polymer like in a 3D printer, but with those fundamental building blocks of life, with those A's and C's and T's and G's.
Video examples
A Rare Look at the...
polymers where I've been working for for twenty years with my wife Sheryl and that's where she has a long-term runtime project our site is deep in the interior of that National Park and it comprises the eight different habitats
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
elements in the periodic table because we can life uses a safe subset in fact most materials on this planet are made with six elements and when those elements are put into materials into polymers what are like our plastics long
Video examples
Nina Jablonski breaks...
and myriad other important functions in our bodies. So, living at the equator, we got lots and lots of ultraviolet radiation and the melanin -- this wonderful, complex, ancient polymer compound in our skin --
Video examples
Meet the microbes that...
a high temperature that can weaken PET polymers and make them digestible. With the help of these and other tiny diehards, the future of PET recycling looks promising. But PET is just one type of plastic.
Video examples
A new superweapon in the...
nanometers-thin blanket of siRNA. This is our gene blocker. Because siRNA is strongly negatively charged, we can protect it with a nice, protective layer of positively charged polymer.
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Giulio Natta
Italian Scientist
If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.
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Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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Robert H. Grubbs
American Scientist
Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.
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Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.
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Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.
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Janine Benyus
American Writer
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
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Ryoji Noyori
Japanese Scientist
In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
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Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics.
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Robert H. Grubbs
American Scientist
Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.
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Giulio Natta
Italian Scientist
All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.
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Giulio Natta
Italian Scientist
If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.
Quote examples
Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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Robert H. Grubbs
American Scientist
Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.
Quote examples
Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.
Quote examples
Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.
Quote examples
Janine Benyus
American Writer
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
Quote examples
Ryoji Noyori
Japanese Scientist
In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
Quote examples
Alan J. Heeger
American Physicist
The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics.
Quote examples
Robert H. Grubbs
American Scientist
Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.
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Giulio Natta
Italian Scientist
All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.
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