Polymer Chemistry is the Home Depot of Chemistry?
Polymer Chemistry- The Home Depot of Chemistry. You are going to get your hands dirty. Also, have fun doing it yourself and trying to figure out what’s going on when (not ‘if’, ‘when’) it doesn’t work. The literature is not going to help you much with the “why”- it’ll just show you what to do. It sucks, but that’s polymer chemistry. But what you’ll end up doing, once it finally works, will likely be useful to other people.
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With regard of this quote, it did represent some feeling around polymer chemists. But ‘polymer chemistry’ is sometimes misused to call the whole polymer science. If it was not here and meant ‘polymer synthesis’ I think it is now that frustrating. I feel that we know more ‘why’ in synthesis than in polymer physics.
Good to know there is one reader of this blog. It will be reactivated, even though this is a painful process.
I really liked the analogy. A lot of what polymer chemistry can be is “home depot”. And, being in industry, working on stuff that is close to technical problems, this often is even more so.
If there is interest in these “viewpoints”, we could rant on about it. If.
It is not only true but right to call Polymer chemistry the “Home Depot” of Chemistry. Take a look at the materials you can buy at Home Depot or any other Home Depot style outfit for example: there is nothing that does not contain functional polymers or is made using polymers, even the plaster and concrete contain admixtures, well except for the distilled water, however you get it in a polythene bottle so in a way it should count.
So now I am off to exploring some other aspect of goo, the literal power in goo…..