Analysts’ roles purpose

Polymers continue to play an ever increasing role in the modem world. In fact it is quite inconceivable to most people that we could ever have existed without them. As a result of the increased volume and variety of materials currently available, and the diversity of their application, characterisation has become an essential requirement of industrial and academic laboratories involved with polymeric materials. On the one hand requirements may come from polymer specialists involved in the design and synthesis of new materials who require a detailed understanding of the relationship between the precise molecular architecture and the properties of the polymer in order to improve its capabilities and range of applications. On the other hand, many analysts who are not polymer specialists are faced with the problems of analysing and testing a wide range of polymeric materials for quality control or material specification purposes. 

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