Polyolefin Science and Technology

Prof. S. Sivaram is presently an INSA senior scientist and Honorary Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India. Prior to this, he served as eighth Director of NCL, as CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow and J. C. Bose Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology. Dr. S. Sivaram is a highly decorated scientist with numerous awards to his credit. The president of India conferred the coveted civilian honor, Padma Shri, on Dr. Sivaram in 2006. He has mentored 38 Ph.D. students, over a dozen postdoctoral fellows and serves as chairman of many national and international scientific advisory committees. Professor Sivaram has authored over 245 scientific publications and is cited as an inventor on 52 US patents and 51 Indian patents. He is an elected fellow of all the learned academies of science and engineering in India. More information can be found in www.swaminathansivaram.in Dr. Samir H. Chikkali earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Dietrich Gudat from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. After two postdoctoral stints, he returned to India and joined CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune, to start his independent research career. His honours and awards include, fellowship from Indian Academy of Science, DPI (Dutch Polymer Institute) postdoctoral fellowship, AvH (Alexander von Humboldt) postdoctoral fellowship, the Ramanujan (DST) Fellowship, Scientist of the Year Award 2017-2018 by NCL-RF and Young Associate of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. His work has led to 52 publications in international peer reviewed journals, has edited a book and is cited as an inventor on 12 patents.

Chapter 1
People, places, events and landmarks in polyolefins

Chapter 2
Introduction to basic concepts in polymer science

Chapter3
Chemistry of olefin polymerization: Early transition metals

Chapter 4
Chemistry of olefin polymerization: Metallocenes

Chapter5
Chemistry of olefin polymerization: Post-metallocenes

Chapter 6
Computational approaches to understand the mechanism of olefin polymerization

Chapter 7
Fundamentals of polyolefin reaction engineering

Chapter 8
Polyolefin manufacturing technologies

Chapter 9
Analysis and characterization of polyolefins

Chapter 10
Crystallization and solid-state properties of polyolefins

Chapter 11
Melt and rheological properties of polyolefins

Chapter12
Flow induced microstructure development

Chapter 13
Processing of polyolefins

Chapter 14
Additives for polyolefins

Chapter 15
Structure-property-processing-performance relationship in polyolefins

Chapter 16
Product performance and end product design

Chapter 17
Sustainability and life cycle analysis of polyolefins

Chapter 18
Business and intellectual property landscape in polyolefins