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Trends in industrial polymer research |
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| Authors: | Volker Warzelhan Franz Brandstetter |
| Institution: | BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Polymer Research, D-67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany |
| Abstract: | In the past decades a shift in paradigm took place in industrial polymer research for structural materials. Only a few new polymers based on new monomeric building blocks were developed. The main focus is now on tailoring improved “old polymers” with well-defined structure and properties based on a set of low cost “old” monomers using controlled polymerization mechanisms. |
| Keywords: | controlled polymer synthesis industrial polymer research modification and improvement of polymers structural polymers |