This 3rd edition of this important dictionary offers more than 12,000 entries with expanded encyclopaedic-style definitions making this major reference work invaluable to practitioners, researchers and students working in the area of polymer science and technology. This new edition now includes entries on computer simulation and modeling, surface and interfacial properties and their characterization, functional and smart polymers. New and controlled architectures of polymers, especially dendrimers and controlled radical polymerization are also covered.

Marc Alger was a senior lecturer at the Polymer Centre of the London Metropolitan University.

Preface to the third edition.- Preface to the second edition.- Preface to the first edition.- Notes on the organisation of the dictionary.- Notation.- Appendices.- Sources