Collected Papers of Wallace Hume Carothers on High Polymeric Substances Physical Chemistry of High Polymeric Systems

Abstract

IT is impossible for one author to attempt to bring within the compass of one or even a series of volumes a comprehensive and authoritative account of high polymer systems. Nothing less than a carefully chosen team of experts will suffice for the task. While the subject has come more and more into prominence in recent years this is only partly due to new knowledge of synthetic polymers, for there has accumulated over aconsiderable period an extensive and often unco–ordinated body of knowledge of the natural high polymers, rubber, cellulose, proteins and the like. Gradually, however, the whole subject has been cleared of indefinite opinions and conceptions, and some degree of order introduced into this branch of chemistry. This does not mean that all the fundamental problems are solved, and it is now only a question of settling matters of insignificant detail. Much has yet to be done, and a first step in the process is a clear survey of the existing state of affairs. This is the object of the editors—R. E. Burk, H. Mark and G. S. Whitby—in the volumes under review.

Collected Papers of Wallace Hume Carothers on High Polymeric Substances

Edited by Prof. H. Mark G. Stafford Whitby. (High Polymers, Vol. 1.) Pp. xix + 459. (New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc.; London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1940). 8.50 dollars; 51s. net.

Physical Chemistry of High Polymeric Systems

By Prof. H. Mark. Translated from the manuscript by K. Sinclair, revised by J. Edmund Woods. (High Polymers, Vol. 2.) Pp. x + 345. (New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc.; London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1940). 6.50 dollars; 39s. net.