This newly revised and expanded reference includes 60 percent new material on the structure, morphology, and properties of polyolefin (PO) synthesis, focusing on synthetic advances, the use of additives, special coverage of PO blends, composites and fibers, and surface treatments.

The Second Edition addresses the problem of interfacial and superficial phenomena!

Thoroughly updated and rewritten by over 50 internationally recognized experts from the United States, Europe, and Russia-double the number of the previous edition-the Second Edition of the Handbook of Polyolefins

• considers main industrial and novel routes of synthesis
• examines new additives: stabilizers, nucleating and clarifying agents, fillers and reinforcements, and coupling agents
• describes thermodynamic properties of PO solutions
• reviews marketing data and their impact on scientific and economic development
• explains functionalized and controlled lifetime polyolefins
• clarifies biocompatibility and biodeterioration
• and more!

Featuring more than 4700 references and over 1800 drawings, tables, chemical structures, equations, and micrographs, the Second Edition of the Handbook of Polyolefins is an exhaustive reference for chemical and design engineers; polymer, analytical, materials, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical chemists; environmental scientists and technologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.