Future challenges for polymers

The availability and relatively low cost of polymeric products has led to them becoming use and throw items which increase land fill problems and 

Simple structural representation Name of polymer Applications 

milk jugs, storage tanks, lids, detergent bottles, packaging film, electrical insulators, pipes, etc. 

mosquito nets, automobile parts, chairs, toiletries, bottles, ropes, wrapping films, etc. 

cooking oil bottles, toys, electrical sheathing, footware, etc. 

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Recent advances in polymerization techniques have made possible the synthesis of complex, including hierarchically branched, maaomolecules with perfectly controlled architecture. Analysis of interplay between complex maaomolecular topology and multiple competing interactions on conformations, routes of self-organization in solutions and at interfaces, and properties of resulting supramolecular stractures presents a major cuuent and future challenge for polymer theory. 

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