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Your answer illustrates why, after all these years, HN is still one of the best places to lurk. As someone who forgot most of what he learned in HS chemistry, a
by cellis 5y ago
Your answer illustrates why, after all these years, HN is still one of the best places to lurk. As someone who forgot most of what he learned in HS chemistry, and didn’t take any collegiate courses, what material would you recommend to learn about this stuff?
- adrian_b 5y agoI am sorry but I cannot give a good recommendation as some years have passed since I have last searched for chemistry books in this domain. If you go to Amazon and you search, e.g., for "Polymer Chemistry" and for "Materials Chemistry", you will find much more than 100 books. However I do not know which are the best among the recent books. A less risky way than ordering such a book, and finding after paying for it that it is a dud, would be to go to an online site like Library Genesis, search there for such books (there are plenty), browse through them and maybe, if you find what you need, choose one or more to buy in printed form. Alternatively, you can read the Amazon reviews for such books, to determine which would be worthy. The Amazon reviews for such specialized items as a science book are usually more trustworthy than for items of general interest.
- toss1 5y agoThx for the Library Genesis pointer - looks like a fantastic resource!
- user_7832 5y agoNot the person you're replying to but William D Callister's Material Science and Engineering is a pretty standard engineering book I've seen used in my different universities across 2 continents (and have studied from too), so I'm going to say that it's a good starting point.