ABSTRACT
Polymers comprise one of the most important material groups in modern industry. Without polymers, our lives would be very different, missing the great diversity that polymers have given to materials, in forms such as plastics, fibers, and dyes. Furthermore, polymers are providing the material means for advantages such as increased efficiency in applications like organic light-emitting diode (LED) displays. As predicted by the movie The Graduate, there has been an explosion over the past half-century in the demand for polymers in industrial applications.
