Fundamental Polymer Science

Ulf Gedde is professor emeritus at KTH Royal Institute of Technology after retirement from the professor chair of Polymeric Materials. His research interests are polymeric materials and their properties, polymer physics, crystalline polymers, polymers in power-electronics, the long-term performance of polymers, transport properties and polymer nanocomposites. Gedde is the author of 300 scientific papers and the textbooks Polymer Physics, Fundamental Polymer Science, Essential Classical Thermodynamics and Applied Polymer Science and is editor of Polymer Testing. He has supervised 44 PhDs, holds 5 patents and was involved in the development of the bimodal polyethylene materials. His teaching which extends over 40 years has been awarded at KTH.Professor Mikael Hedenqvist heads the division of Polymeric Materials at Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research interests include polymer modelling/simulation, transport properties, processing of polymers, foams and biobased polymers (incl. proteins). Hedenqvist is Editor-in-Chief of Polymer Testing, has supervised 49 PhDs and has authored 365 scientific papers and the textbooks Fundamental Polymer Science and Applied Polymer Science. He holds 7 patents and is co-founder of Peepoople AB. Hedenqvist teaches courses on the mechanical properties of materials, polymeric materials and transport properties.Lars Berglund is a senior professor of Wood Composites at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research interest is in polymer composites, recently cellulose bio-composites and nanomaterials establishing structure-property relationships. His research contributed to industrial technologies for glass mat thermoplastics, carbon fibre/vinylester composites and rubber-toughened epoxies. Berglund has published more than 300 scientific papers, holds 10 patents and has supervised 30 PhDs. He is the founding director of Wallenberg Wood Science Centre, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and he is an Advanced Grantee from the European Research Council. His teaching includes polymer science and engineering, processing and mechanical behaviour of polymers and composites, cellular materials, and wood and cellulose science.Mats Johansson is a professor in Polymer Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research interests are polymer chemistry, thermoset polymers in thin film applications, coatings technology, bio-based monomers and polymers, photopolymerization, thiol-ene chemistry, polymerization reaction kinetics and structure - property relationships. Johansson is the author of 180 scientific papers, several book chapters and the supervisor of 20 PhDs. He holds two patents both resulting in commercial full-scale implementation. He is Editor-in-Chief for Progress in Organic Coatings. He has 30 years of experience in teaching on basic polymer technology, polymer chemistry and coating technology.Jakob Wohlert is Docent in Fibre and Polymer Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has a background in computational biophysics and his research interests are modelling of biopolymers and plant polysaccharides with focus on both their function in the plant cell wall and their application in sustainable materials, structure-property relationships in heterogeneous systems, macromolecular dynamics, interactions between macromolecules and water, and the thermodynamics of adsorption and solubility. He is the author of 60 scientific papers.

• Introduction to polymer science.- Conformations in polymers.-  Rubber elasticity.- Polymer solutions.-  The glassy amorphous state.- The molten state.- Morphology of Semicrystalline Polymers: Concepts, Analytical Methods and Structure-Property Relationships.-  Crystallisation kinetics.-  Chain orientation.-  Polymer synthesis.-  Solutions to problems given in exercises.