Polymer Science and Polymer Chemistry

Synthetic Polymers

Synthetic polymers are those which are human-made macromolecule that is made of thousands of repeating units. Sometimes these polymers are straight-chained and branched. Polymers are those which consists of repeated structural units known as monomers. Polyethylene is considered to be as one of the simplest polymer, it has ethene or ethylene as the monomer unit whereas the linear polymer is known as the high density polyethylene-HDPE, many of the polymeric materials have chain-like structures which resemble polyethylene.

From the utility point of view Synthetic Polymers can be classified into four main categories: thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers and synthetic fibers.