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ORMOCER®s - A new class of polymeric material.
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ORMOCER(r)s - A new class of polymeric material 1. Introduction The field of polymer science is one of the most important areas of modern materials research. Much of the technological progress of the last century has been dependent on the development of new materials with specialized properties, and the majority of these new substances are polymers. A polymer is defined as a substance consisting of long chains of much smaller repeating units known as monomers. There are many naturally occuring polymers, including the molecule fundamental to life itself, DNA, which consists of long chains of bases known as nucleotides. However the great majority of polymers used commercially are man-made, being synthesised by the direct polymerisation of the starting monomers. One of the simplest examples of a synthetic polymer is familiar by name to everyone: polythene, or polyethylene. This is formed by the linking of a large number of discrete molecules of ethylene, C2H4, into...
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