This thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling reference/text highlights the experimental applications of spectroscopic methods, while also providing a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the various techniques for particular polymer systems.

Containing new and updated information on techniques in IR and NMR, as well as an all-new chapter on mass spectrometry, the Second Edition of Spectroscopy of Polymers is essential reading for students and scientists who seek a thorough and practical introduction to the field of polymer spectroscopy. Its goal is not to make the reader an expert in the field, but rather to provide enough information about the different spectroscopic methods that the reader can determine how the available techniques can be used to solve a particular polymer problem.

From the Preface: “...The challenges of characterizing the molecular structure of synthetic polymers continue to grow as the polymer chemists for a broad range of new materials applications are synthesizing exciting new structures...Advances in Raman instrumentation have been dramatic and the polymer spectroscopists must now seriously consider the use of Raman as complementary to infrared...The higher applied magnetic field [in modern solution NMR] results in greater dispersion so the resolution is higher and the information content is extended as longer stereo and comonomer sequences are observed...”

Target Audience: Students, graduate students and polymer scientists, spectroscopists, analytical chemists, and chemical engineers.

Table of Contents:

Theory of Polymer Characterization

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polymers

Experimental IR Spectroscopy of Polymers

Applications of IR Spectroscopy to Polymers

Raman Spectroscopy of Polymers

High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers in Solution

Applications of High Resolution Solution NMR

High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy of Solid Polymers

Applications of High-Resolution Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy to Polymers

Mass Spectrometry of Polymers

Index