SciFinder provides online access to the Chemical Abstracts family of databases. It is the primary tool for searching the journal and patent literature for information about polymers and plastics. Searching for specific polymeric substances in SciFinder (by nomenclature, formula, or structure) is highly complex and requires some training to do effectively.
Updated daily. Requires users to register with a utexas.edu email account. Provides integrated access to the Chemical Abstracts suite of databases with millions of bibliographic records covering the worldwide chemical literature, including patents; as well as over 100 million substance records, with chemical structures, names, synonyms, and associated property data; plus millions of searchable organic reactions. Search by topic, author, chemical identification terms (names, formulas, Registry Numbers), and chemical structures.
Engineering Index is an alternative source for exploring the literature of polymers and plastics.
Updated weekly. Ei Compendex indexes the research literature of the field of engineering. The product contains more than 17 million total records. Over a million new records, with abstracts, are added per year. More than 3,600 journals and 4,100 conference publications and trade magazines are currently indexed. Customizable e-mail or RSS alerts are available.
Database of material properties includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.
This standard handbook (known as "Brandrup") contains extensive data tables for synthetic polymers and oligomers, excluding biopolymers and spectroscopic data. With a list of polymer name abbreviations and a general subject index.
25,000 A to Z concise entries covering information and terminology from the plastics industry. Also contains several review chapters on the "World of Plastics."
Excellent information source presents a wealth of information on preparation, manufacturing processes, uses of materials, properties of chemical substances, and chemistry fundamentals.
Contains authoritative articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses; industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering; fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field; environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology. (Due to rising costs of scholarly information and a diminished collection budget, this resource was recently evaluated. We will continue to have access to this resource but articles that are updated after January 2018 will not be available to us.)
Dictionary covering the non-technology areas of polymer science, including some biopolymers, but not nucleic acids. Entries for both basic concepts and individual polymers and trade names.
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Find them in the Library Catalog. Print books on polymer-related topics are scattered across a number of areas of the Library of Congress Classification system, depending on their focus:
QC463.P5 - Polymer spectra
QD139.P6 - Polymer characterization and analysis
QD281.P6 - Organic polymerization
QD380-389 - Polymer chemistry, general and specific
QP801.P64 - Biopolymers
TA455P5/P58 - Physical/mechanical properties of polymeric materials
TP156.P6 - Polymerization processes (industrial)
TP1101-1185 - Polymer and plastics engineering and products
