📚 Polymers

Long chains that made the century: plastics, rubbers and fibres, from Staudinger’s insight to the recycling problem.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject polymers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology	H. F. Mark	1977	16
	Crystallization of Polymers	Leo Mandelkern	1964	14
	Principles of polymer systems	Ferdinand Rodriguez	1970	12
	Polymers	J. M. G. Cowie	1974	11
	Polymer handbook	J. Brandrup	1966	9
	Polyolefin Reaction Engineering	Joao B. P. Soares	2012	9
	Testing of Polymers	John V. Schmitz	1965	8
	Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology	Herman F. Mark	1966	8
	Stereoregular polymers and stereospecific polymerizations	Giulio Natta	1967	8
	Polymer Chemistry	Malcolm P. Stevens	1975	8
	Introduction to polymers	Robert J. Young	1981	8
	Polymer chemistry	Paul C. Hiemenz	1984	8
	Polymer extrusion	Chris Rauwendaal	1986	8
	Fundamentals of polymer science	Paul C. Painter	1994	8
	Polymer blends and alloys	Gabriel O. Shonaike	1999	7
	Introduction to polymer rheology	Montgomery T. Shaw	2012	7
	Mechanical properties of polymers and composites	Lawrence E. Nielsen	1974	6
	Polymers	Herbert Morawetz	1985	6
	Introduction to Physical Polymer Science	Leslie H. Sperling	2008	6
	Handbook Of Polymer Crystallization	Ewa Piorkowska	2013	6
	Standard pressure-volume-temperature data for polymers	Paul Zoller	1995	5
	Principles of polymer chemistry	A. Ravve	1995	5
	Polymer blends	Donald R. Paul	1999	5
	Thermal degradation of polymeric materials	Krzysztof Pielichowski	2005	5
	Functional Polymers by PostPolymerization Modification	Harm-Anton Klok	2012	5
	Flow properties of polymer melts	J. A. Brydson	1970	4
	An introduction to the mechanical properties of solid polymers	I. M. Ward	1993	4
	Handbook of polymer degradation	S. Halim Hamid	2000	4
	Principles of polymer science	P. Bahadur	2002	4
	A guide to polymeric geomembranes	John Scheirs	2009	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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