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General

• Macromolecules
• Polymers
• Biopolymers

Polydispersity

• Degree of polymerization
• Molar mass distribution
• Monodisperse
• Polydisperse
• Polydispersity index

Mixing and solutions

• Flory–Huggins solution theory
• Theta solvent
• Phase separation

Polymer chain dimensions in solution

• End-to-end vector
• Contour length, Kuhn length
• Freely-jointed chain
• Random coil
• Excluded volume
• Radius of gyration

Polyelectrolytes

• Polyelectrolytes, e.g.
  • sodium polyacrylate
  • super slurpers

Polymer characterization

• Polymer characterization
• Osmotic pressure
• Light scattering
• Size exclusion chromatography
• Gel permeation chromatography

Polymer synthesis and growth mechanisms

• Polymer synthesis
• Copolymerisation
• Step-growth polymerization
• Ionic polymerisation (e.g. anionic addition polymerization)

Viscosity of polymer solutions

• Intrinsic viscosity
• Mark–Houwink equation