Mission and Role of National and International Associations in the Advancement and Promotion of Polymer Science, Technology and Materials

摘要

The 20th century has been widely recognized as the "polymer century" with a huge development in the field of polymer science and technology resulting in revolutionary discoveries and industrial exploitation of polymer and polymer-related materials. Apart from the sustainable development of commodity and engineering polymers, many new areas of research have come about leading to the development of novel specialty polymers as high performance materials. New and rapidly evolving fields such as conductive or self-assembling polymers have been recognized as break-throughs through the awarding of the Nobel prize to their initiators.