Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers
 | This WikiProject is believed to be inactive. Consider looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse.
If you are not currently a project participant and wish to help you may still participate in the project or its parent project WikiProject chemistry. This status should be changed if collaborative activity resumes. |
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to polymers. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Title
[edit]WikiProject on Polymers
Scope
[edit]The aim of this WikiProject is to organize and disseminate all polymer related information on Wikipedia in a coordinated fashion.
At the moment, we are focusing on a few things (and please, be bold with adding new things to this list!)
- Bringing a list of industrially significant polymers up to featured article status.
- Doing a "top-down" approach on how to organize polymer articles and related information, possibly with the use of categories which group together significant topics relevant to polymer chemistry.
The approach at the moment is to first bring one polymer article up to featured article status, and then use that article as a template for other polymer articles. Polyethylene might be a good start because of its prevalence and dominance. However, it might be better to pick a more application specific polymer first, because there is too much variability for the definition of these polymers. The articles on polymers generally need to emphasize that they define a class of mixtures of molecules with a particular distribution, et cetera...
Other WikiProjects
[edit]Parentage
[edit]Related WikiProjects
[edit]Similar WikiProjects are:
- In particular, see the list of polymers in
- Should we transfer that list over here to this WikiProject?
- Portal:Chemistry is a good place to look! Not directly related to polymers, but related to chemistry.
Related pages in Sister projects
[edit]- Polymer chemistry & Polymers
- Wikibooks:Polymers
- Wikiversity:Portal:Polymer chemistry & Wikiversity:Polymers
- Wikiquote:Polymer chemistry
- Wiktionary:Polymer
Sister Project Searches
[edit]- WikiBooks search
- Google WikiBooks search
- WikiQuote search
- Google WikiQuote search
- WikiSource search
- Google WikiSource search
Participants
[edit]If you are interested join with us, please add your user name to the list! Do so by adding * ~~~~ to the end of the list.
- Muzammil Iqbal 5 July 2005 12:43 (UTC)
- HappyCamper 5 July 2005 12:43 (UTC)
- ChemGardener 16:03, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
- Joel 15:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
- rolandog 20:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- Nathaniel 03:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- H Padleckas 05:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- abakharev 02:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- Hispalois 10:05, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- SparkyOC (talk) 12:06, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
- Mothball (talk) 13:20, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
- UMChemProfessor (talk) 15:11, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- - Vis M (talk) 11:19, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- GregCM1
- StuPat (talk) 11:50, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- Shishir Kumar CIPET,India)
- Walkerma (talk) 18:11, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
- Adam Rees, user:adamrees89 11:48, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
- --Minihaa (talk) 09:00, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
- CraftyChemist (talk) 21:43, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- Cmcfaul (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- HokiePE (talk) 01:00, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- SPT ChrisFellows (talk) 14:22, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
- — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 22:19, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
- Gmrozz (talk) 04:25, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- MesoAlchemy (talk) 06:12, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
- Lsosavargas (talk) 14:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
- Chenomic (talk) 14:51, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- GRALISTAIR (talk) 16:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- KiarashFa (talk) 19:54, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Goals
[edit]Try to make an article for each of these topics
Basic definitions
Terms used to describe monomers
Terms used to describe oligomers
Terms used to describe polymers
- Chain length
- Structural unit
- Repeating unit
- Backbone and Backbone chain
- Pendant groups
- End-groups
- Degree of polymerization
- Linkages
- Molecular weight distribution
- Differential molecular weight distribution
- Integral molecular weight distribution
- Molecular weight
- Number average molecular weight
- Weight average molecular weight
- Viscosity average molecular weight
- Z average molecular weight
- Z-plus-1 average molecular weight
- Polydispersity index
- Hydrodynamic radius
- Cross linking
- Critical conversion for gelation
- Number fraction
- Weight fraction
- Viscosity fraction
Types of polymers
- Homopolymer
- Copolymers
- Random polymers
- Graft polymers
- Alternating polymers
- Block polymers
- Branch polymers
- Arborescent polymers
- Dendritic polymers
Polymer structures
- Conformational isomerism
- Geometric isomerism
- Tacticity
- Stereoisomerism
- Isotactic polymer
- Syndiotactic polymer
- Atactic polymer
- Crystalline polymer
- Amorphous polymer
Types of polymerization
- Polymerization reaction
- Condensation polymerization
- Addition polymerization
- Chain growth polymerization
- Radical polymerization
- Anionic polymerization
- Living polymerization
- Cationic polymerization
- Interfacial polymerization
- Emulsion polymerization
- Coordinated polymerization
- Propagation modes
- Chain transfer
- Ring-opening polymerization
Copolymerization reactions
- Cross polymerization
- Homopolymerization
- Microstructure
- Microstructure plot
- Random copolymers
- Blocky copolymers
- Alternating copolymers
- Azeotropic copolymerization
- Integrated copolymerization equation
- Feed composition
- Average copolymer composition
- Multicomponent copolymerization
- Resonance shifts
- Drift
- Steric effects
- Polar effects
- Q-e scheme
- Curing
- Gelation
Measurement techniques used for polymers
- Size exclusion chromatography
- Universal size exclusion chromatography
- Gel permeation chromatography
- Ebullioscopy
- Cryoscopy
- Vapour pressure depression
- Vapour pressure osmometry
- Membrane osmometry
- End group analysis
- Titration
- Light scattering
- Refractive index increment
- Zimm plot
- Differential refractometer
- UV absorbance
- Fluorescence
- Spectrofluorometer
Fluid and viscosity measurements
- Viscometry, Viscometer
- Absolute viscosity
- Relative viscosity
- Specific viscosity
- Reduced viscosity
- Elution time
- Elution volume
- Theta solvent
- Compatibility
Polymer solutions
Mechanical properties and its description
- Viscoelasticity
- Additives
- Plasticizers
- Thermal transitions
- Glassy state
- Melting
- Melt crystallization
- Spherulites
- Crystallite
- Annealing
- Row mediated structure
- Fiber drawing
- Superdrawn fibers
- Elastic modulus
- Tensile deformation
- Shear deformation
- Stress relaxation
- Maxwell element
Polymer engineering
- Molecular weight control
- Polymerizability
- Autoacceleration
- Diffusion controlled termination
- Initiator efficiency
Related topics
- Initiation (chemistry)
- Initiator
- Cocatalyst
- Carbenium ion
- Equilibrium
- Cyclic ethers
- Ziegler–Natta catalysis
- Metallocene catalysis polymerization
- Propagation
- Termination
- Thermoplastic elastomers
- Statistical copolymers
- Biochemistry
- Proteins
- Second virial coefficients
- Ideal solutions
- Raoult's law
- Volatility
- Poiseuille equation
- Catalyst
- Kinetic analysis
- Resonance stabilization
- Disproportionation
- Elastomer
- Polymer crystallization
- Steady state assumption
- Ion exchange resins
- Merrifield resin
- Ionomers
- Surlyn resins
- Nucleophile
- Aggregation
Pages needing attention
[edit]See:Category:Polymers articles needing attention
Other subpages
[edit]Articles to be split
- 17 Nov 2024 – UV coating (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HLHJ (t · c); see discussion
Templates
[edit]| What to type | What it is for | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stub template | ||||||||
| {{Polymer-stub}} | To be placed in articles which are stubs. | |||||||
| ||||||||
| Banner of the project | ||||||||
| {{WikiProject Polymers}} | To be placed on the talk page of those articles which are in the scope of this project. | |||||||
| ||||||||
| Navigation templates | ||||||||
| {{Plastics}} | A table which lists a number of important plastics. To be placed at the bottom of plastic related topics. | |||||||
| {{HealthIssuesOfPlastics}} | A nav. box containing polymers and plasticizers which have health issues or associated problems. To be placed at the bottom of appropriate articles concerned with it. | |||||||
| Infoboxes | ||||||||
| Currently most of the polymer articles use {{Chembox}} as an infobox. Some use simple tables. An infobox completely dedicated to polymers has not yet developed. | ||||||||
Categories
[edit]Article categories
[edit]Project related categories
[edit]Lists
[edit]- List of synthetic polymers contains list of examples and brand names
- List of polyurethane applications
- Thermoplastic contains an extensive list
- Elastomer lists a number of rubbers
German lists include
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzzeichen_%28Kunststoff%29 Kurzzeichen (Kunststoff) (Abbreviations (Plastics))
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunststoff Kunststoff (Plastics)
Articles
[edit]Articles to be split
- 17 Nov 2024 – UV coating (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HLHJ (t · c); see discussion
Click to watch (Subscribe via
RSS Atom) · Find Article Alerts for other topics!
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Arboform on 4 August 2012. (See:Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/August)
- Entry: "Did you know ... that scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood?"
- High-refractive-index polymer on 21 April 2011. (see:Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April)
- Entry: "Did you know ... that addition of sulfur increases refractive index of polymers?"
- Crystallization of polymers on 2 June 2010. (see:Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/June)
- Entry: "Did you know ... that crystallization of polymers proceeds through the formation of spherulites (example pictured)?"
Resources
[edit]
Watchlists
[edit]- External watchlist
- All namespace - including maintanence pages related to polymers.
- Articles - includes all articles in the category:Polymers
- Recent discussions - on article talkpages.
Tools
[edit]- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion for improving articles.
