Polymer Basics: Classroom Activities Manipulating Paper Clips To Introduce the Structures and Properties of Polymers

• Autores: Yunusa Umar
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 91, Nº 10, 2014, págs. 1667-1670
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A simple and effective hands-on classroom activity designed to illustrate basic polymer concepts is presented. In this activity, students build primary structures of homopolymers and different arrangements of monomers in copolymer using paper clips as monomers. The activity supports formation of a basic understanding of polymer structures, tacticity, copolymers, degree of polymerization, arrangement of monomers in copolymers, and polymer chain entanglement.