An Introduction to Plastics, 2nd, Completely Revised Edition

"This book presents a precise, yet non-mathematical introduction to plastics, their raw materials, syntheses, properties and applications."
Revue de l'Institut Francais du Pétrole

"The volume is excellently written, with a simple, straightforward and comprehensive index. It provides an overview of all plastics, including raw materials: manufacture, structure, processing, properties and, of course, applications."
Polymer International


"This book has all the earmarks of becoming a guide to or even a reference book for polymers in structural applications."
Acta Polymerica


"For somebody teaching polymer science to chemists as well as to engineers, this book is an extremely valuable addition to the bookshelf. Similarly, if you are a chemist and you are confronted with the materials aspects - processing as well as properties - so that you have to interact with the engineers, this book will help you to understand and to solve the problems that arise. However, it is especially students studying chemical and process engineering and coming to the polymer materials part of the course who will be attracted by the comprehensive contents of this introduction to plastics!
In summary, "An Introduction to Plastics" is an excellent and fairly comprehensive, but nevertheless compact, textbook. It can be recommended for engineers and materials scientists in academia, and especially in industry, who have to deal with the material properties and processing aspects of polymers."
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
2005, Vol. 44, No. 6