Polymer Data Handbook

This new edition includes better values of properties already reported, properties not reported in time for the earlier edition, and entirely new properties becoming important for modern polymer applications. It also contains 217 total polymers, 20 of which are all-new, particularly in high-technology areas such as eletrical conductivity, non-linear optical properties, microlithography, nanophotonics, and electroluminescences. Examples of specific polymers include silsesquoxane ladder polymers, 'foldamer' self-assembling polymers, and block copolymers that phase separate into 'mushrooms', ellipsoids, and sheets with on surface radically different in properties from the other.

James E. Mark is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Cincinnati. He has extensive research and consulting experience in industry and has served as a Visiting Professor at several institutions. Dr. Mark's research interests pertain to the physical chemistry of polymers, including the elasticity of polymer networks, hybrid organic-inorganic composites, liquid-crystalline polymers, and a variety of computer simulations. Dr. Mark is an extensive lecturer in polymer chemistry, is an organizer and participant in a number of short courses, and has published approximately 675 research papers and coauthored or co-edited twenty-four books. He is the founding editor of the journal Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science, which was started in 1990, is an editor for the journal Polymer, and serves on a number of journal Editorial Boards. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Books by same author Polymer Data Handbook, ed. by J. E. Mark, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. Contemporary Polymer Chemistry, 3rd Edition, H. R. Allcock, F. W. Lampe, and J. E. Mark, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2003. Physical Properties of Polymers, 3rd Ed., J. E. Mark, A. Eisenberg, W. W. Graessley, L. Mandelkern, E. T. Samulski, J. L. Koenig, and G. D. Wignall, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004. Inorganic Polymers, 2nd Edition, J. E. Mark, H. R. Allcock, and R. West, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2005. Science and Technology of Rubber, 3rd Ed., ed. by J. E. Mark, B. Erman, and F. R. Eirich, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005. Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook , 2nd Edition, ed. by J. E. Mark, Springer Verlag, New York, NY, 2007.

Acrylic polymers Addition polyimides Aliphatic polyamides Aliphatic polyesters Aromatic nylons Aromatic polyamides Cage structure polymers Carbohydrate polymers Chemical copolymers Chiral aliphatic polyesters Cofacial polymers Composite matrix resins Conjugated and other unsaturated polymers Conjugated conducting polymers Cyclic polymers Dn-carborane siloxanes Dendrimers Dendritic polymers Dendrons Diene elastomers Di-methyl silicones and siloxanes Electrically conductive polymers Engineering thermoplastics Ethylene copolymers Fluoroelastomers Homopolymers Inorganic and semi-inorganic polymers N-substituted 1-nylons Polyacetals Polyamines Polyanhydrides Polyaromatics Polycarbosilanes Polyesters Polyethers Poly(ether sulfones) Polyformals Polyheterocyclics Poly(alpha-hydroxy esters) Polyimides Poly(isocyanates) Poly(isocyanides) Polyketones Polynitriles Polyolefin copolymers Poly(alpha-olefins) Polypeptides and proteins Polyphosphazenes Polysaccharides Polysilanes Polysilazanes Polysiloxanes Polysulfides Polyureas Polyurethanes Rigid-rod polymers Saturated thermoplastic elastomers Siloxane ladder polymers Thermoplastics Thermoset polymers Thermoset resins Unsaturated thermoplastic elastomers Vinyl polymers Vinylidene polymers