Polymer Physics

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Fall 2024

Course Number

MSE 6592-604

CRN

19803

Credits

3

Discipline

Materials Science and Engineering

Instructor

Liheng Cai

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

Polymers are ubiquitous in modern society. This course provides a foundation for the rigorous understanding of polymers and polymeric materials from molecule to the macroscopic viewpoint. Single polymers, solutions, melts, crystalline and glassy states, gels and networks are developed sequentially to explain the fundamental, physical origin of mesoscale phase behavior and macroscale thermodynamic, mechanical, dynamic, and rheological properties.