Principles of Polymer Design and Synthesis

Professor Su's area of expertise is polymeric materials. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts and did postdoctoral research in Northwestern University. Then she joined Westinghouse Research Center and worked on polymeric materials for electric insulations and electronic devices for 16 years where she won 6 outstanding researcher awards. She joined National Taiwan University in 1996 as full professor and was promoted to distinguished professor in 2009. Her research focuses on innovative materials research including conducting polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and nanocomposites for electronic/solar cell and medical applications. In 2010 she was awarded Outstanding Professor of Chinese Engineer Society (Taiwan) and in 2011 Outstanding Researcher of National Science Council of Taiwan. She has published 162 SCI papers, 193 international conference papers, one book, chapters for 6 books, and has been awarded 26 US patents and 19 Taiwanese patents.

• Introduction.- Polymer Size and Polymer Solutions.- Structure, Morphology and Flow of Polymers.- Chemical and Physical Properties of Polymers.- Characterization of Polymers.- Step Polymerization.- Radical Chain Polymerization.- Ionic Chain Polymerization.- Coordination Polymerization.- Chain Co-Polymerization.- Ring-Opening Polymerization.