Reasons for Interest in Inorganic Polymers

Polymer chemistry and technology form one of the major areas of molecular and materials science. This field impinges on nearly every aspect of modem life, from electronics technology, to medicine, to the wide range of fibers, films, elastomers, and structural materials on which everyone depends. 

The second set of reasons for the burgeoning interest in inorganic-based macromolecules is connected with their known or anticipated differences from their totally organic counterparts. Inorganic elements generate different combinations of properties in polymers 

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