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(Subject Area: Polymers)
Pages in the
Article Authors
Encyclopedia
Biopolymers E. Ann MacGregor Pages 207-245
Macromolecules, Peter A. Mirau, Lynn W.
Pages 857-901
Structure Jelinski and Frank A. Bovey
Plastics Engineering R. J. Crawford Pages 457-474
Polymer Processing Donald G. Baird Pages 611-643
Polymers, Electronic
J. Mort Pages 645-657
Properties
Polymers, T. C. Mike Chung and A.
Pages 659-674
Ferroelectric Petchsuk
Polymers, anic
Martel Zeldin Pages 675-695
anometallic
Polymers,
Garth L. Wilkes Pages 697-722
Mechanical Behavior
Polymers, Elsa Reichmanis, Omkaram
Photoresponsive (in Nalamasu and Francis Pages 723-744
Polymers, Recycling Richard S. Stein Pages 745-750
Timothy E. Long, James E.
Polymers, Synthesis
McGrath and S. Richard Pages 751-774
Polymers, Thermally
J. P. Critchley Pages 775-807
Stable
Rheology of
Chang Dae Han Pages 237-252
Polymeric Liquids
Rubber, Natural Stephen T. Semegen Pages 381-394
Rubber, Synthetic Stephen T. Semegen Pages 395-405
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Biopolymers
E. Ann MacGregor
University of Manitoba
I. General Characteristics of Polymers
II. Biopolymers
GLOSSARY Tertiary structure Overall folding of a polymer chain,
including relative orientations of secondary structures.
-Amino acid pound containing a car-
boxylic acid group (COOH) and an amino group (NH2)
attached to one carbon atom. A POLYMER is a chemical substance whose molecules
Anomers Carbohydrates differing only in configuration are large and consist of many small repeating units cova-
of substituent groups at carbon 1 of an aldose sugar. lently bonded together. In nature, a wide variety of poly-
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