A-level Chemistry/OCR (Salters)/Designer Polymers
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Bulletproof vests are often made of Kevlar, a special type of nylon polymer that contains polymer chains arranged into sheets by hydrogen bonding. Kevlar was invented at DuPont in 1965 by Stephanie Kwolek and Herbert Blades.
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Designer Polymers is the seventh unit in the Salters Advanced Chemistry course.
Chemical Storylines sections
[edit | edit source]- DP1 Designer polymers
- DP2 The invention of nylon
- DP3 Polyesters: from clothes to bottles
- DP4 Kevlar
- DP5 Taking temperature into account
- DP6 Poly(ethene) by design
- DP7 Throwing it away... or not?
- DP8 Summary
Chemical Ideas sections
[edit | edit source]- 5.4 Forces between molecules: hydrogen bonding (revision)
- 5.5 The structure and properties of polymers
- 13.3 Carboxylic acids and their derivatives (revision)
- 13.4a,b The –OH group in alcohols, phenols and acids (revision)
- 13.5 Esters (part revision)
- 13.8 Amines and amides
Activities
[edit | edit source]- DP2.1 Making nylon
- DP2.2 Taking nylon apart
- DP4 Comparing models of nylon–6,6 and Kevlar
- DP5 Bubble gum - or bubble glass?
- DP8 Check your notes on Designer Polymers