ORIGIN OF POLYMERS

 


  •  The word polymers comes from the union of two Greek words: polys (“many”) and mere (“parts, segments”), and they were named for the first time in 1866 by Marcellin Berthelot.


  • Many of the materials used by humanity since ancient times are polymers, such as wood, wool or silk, and from their modification it was possible to obtain more resistant and useful forms.


  • The first fully synthetic polymer was obtained in 1907, when Dutchman Leo Hendrik Baekeland developed Bakelite from phenol and formaldehyde.


  • However, the formal study of polymers began in 1922, when the German Hermann Staudinger determined (1926) that they were long molecular chains and began the process of their nomenclature and understanding, laying the foundations for macromolecular science. The latter would take a definitive push after the Second World War and from the second half of the 20th century a true revolution of synthetic polymers would come.

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